Michael Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: <snip> >Every time the batchjob starts a process up with a STDIN & STDLIST >redirected to a specific LDEV a REPLY is generated on the system >console. I had this problem once before, but I can't remember how I got >around it, that was on a classic 3k anyway. > >It occurred to me to create a custom profile that would somehow disable >or bypass the reply option for these specific ldev's. However I remember >an old HP application called MM/3000 that did exactly what I'm trying to >do. I'm thinking that it's something simple that I'm just overlooking, >something like a file equation or some createprocess switch somewhere, >do I really need to reconfigure these ports? > >All comments will be humbly accepted. > >Regards, >Michael Anderson >Houston, Texas > If I remember correctly the way to disable the console request is to open the file as an NEW file with access INOUT. I don't know off the top of my head what the FOPEN would look like but you could achieve it with a file equation like :file term,new;dev=ldevno;acc=inout Doug Werth [log in to unmask] Beechglen Development Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio 513.922.0509