Hmmm. It appears to not work even though it seems like it should. While
signed on as a user with SM, if I try to access the $STDLIST of a running
job under the same user, I get:

[33]:tail.hpbin.sys "-f /HPSPOOL/OUT/O393"
tail: /HPSPOOL/OUT/O393: Permission denied

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 11:02 AM
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> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] tail -f STDLIST
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> John Dass wrote:
> > I remember that in Unix you can tail -f the stdout of a running
> > program so as to monitor the execution. However in MPe you have
> > to goto MPEX and do a 'printo #Jxxxx' repeatedly to montor
> > the execution. Is there a way to 'tail -f' the stdlist so
> that as the
> > results of the executing program gets to STDLIST, it is displayed
> > on the screen and there is no need to do a 'printo' repeatedly?
>
> Have you tried tail -f /HPSPOOL/OUT/Onnnn where Onnnn is the stdlist
> spoolfile
> number?
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