We wish to set up a job that needs to be streamed at a specific time each
day but we do not want the job to start running any programs at that time.
We need to be able to issue a command equivalent to the PRINTOPREPLY
intrinsic. ie send a message to the console requesting a reply. When the
reply is received the job needs to check the reply and decide whether it
can continue or issue another 'PRINTOPREPLY' request.

Has anyone done this? We cannot find any command that will do this. The
INPUT command will only send a message and wait for a response from $stdin.
We need an option to do the same to the console.

Jeanette Nutsford
Computometric Systems Ltd
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