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Re: message files
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Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:52:33 -0800
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On Mar 18,  3:08pm, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> FCONTROL with parm = 4 sets a timeout.  Seems like CI is doing this on the
> input file.  Intrinsic manual says it's ignored for non-terminals EXCEPT for
> IPC files.  In this case, it seems to be ignored for IPC files in batch?
> (I'm sure this is not the case for actually calling FCONTROL on an IPC file,
> but  whatever the CI is doing, it's not working in batch).

The CI decides to ignore timed reads if the user is not interactive (based
on the return from the FRELATE intrinsic).  It would probably be safe
to noop this check and let the file system decide for itself.

Jeff Vance, CSY

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