> The ADSM V2 R1 NetWare client has a new command available called MACRO.
Guess
> what it does?   :-)

> You can find more information on it in the "Using the Novell NetWare Backup-
> Archive Client" manual.

You got me.  HOWEVER - MACRO is not included in the index (which is where I
looked - silly me) under M.  It would be nice if the manual was indexed by the
command intent, not the title "Load DSMC....."  Also, in case no one else has
mentioned this obvious problem - the manual page headers are all off by one
page - for example, on page 134 in my manual, where the text discusses the
Macro function, the header at the top of the page says "LOOP".  Since there is
no longer a Readers' comment card in the manual......

Oh yes, while I'k dumping on the manual - just tried the command, and the
syntax for the macro is not exactly correct.  Even though I do have the ADSM
directory in my search path for NetWare, the macro is not found when you enter
the macro command in ADSM (either through a Load DSMC MACRO command, or in
Loop mode).  You must include the fully qualified path statement (Macro
Sys:\adsm\blah.mac).  I could take this two ways - a pub change is needed, or
why doesn't the DSMC NLM look in his own directory?  Everything else in ADSM s
eems to look under his own directory (at least those that I can think of).

My appologies for not reading the book better......  and Thanks also to Tim
Pittson for also pointing out the error of my ways  :-)

Jerry Lawson
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Author: INTERNET.OWNERAD
Subject: Re: Macros for NetWare Client
06-03-96 09:41 AM

Jerry Lawson queries:

>I was working with a customer this past week, and they were doing large
>restores of a NetWare Server as a throughput test.  In short, they were
>restore whole volumes at a time, and the typical restore time was measured in
>hours.  While they were satisfied with the throughput overall, they wondered
>if there was a way to automate the command entry, so that they could leave
the
>(exciting) console and not have to worry about being there when one restore
>completed, so that they might start the next one.  My first thought was a
>macro, but they only are available for Admin clients.  Then we thought about
a
>NetWare .NCF file, but the problem here was that ADSM has a prompt at the end
>of each command (press any key to continue) that stops the process anyway.
>
 >Has anyone else come across a way to avoid the delay, and automate the
command
>entry process on NetWare?

The ADSM V2 R1 NetWare client has a new command available called MACRO. Guess
what it does?   :-)

You can find more information on it in the "Using the Novell NetWare Backup-
Archive Client" manual. You should also be able to find it in the online help
screens (type HELP from the ADSM NetWare client command line).

As to avoiding the "press any key to continue" messages: try using the
NWWAITONERROR option. It can be either YES or NO. The default is YES. If you
set it to NO, you won't see the "press any key to continue" message. However,
this means that if a legitimate error (sic) occurs, you won't see the ADSM
screen for it, since the "press any key to continue" will be suppressed.

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support
408-256-0130