> Well, actually, Mitch, getting the CMS administrative client to issue
> a command at a given time of day (or week) is trivial.  My problem in
> automating is due to the fact that the commands I'm interested in, such
> as EXPORT, don't send the final messages back to the administrative
> client.  This makes it difficult to have a program check the results
> of the command.  For example, I want to issue an EXPORT command and
> make sure it runs to completion, then issue the commands necessary to
> eject the tapes from our tape robot.  And, if the EXPORT failed, I want
> to notify somebody to investigate.  Thus, I need to know which tapes
> got used and what the ending status of the EXPORT command was.

I see.  The Q ACT does have some time/date parms that allow you to
fence the activity log such that you can read the output from there.
There is no interactive way that I know of to do this.  I believe that
you have to kludge something in order to pull this off.  I've experimented
with tail'ing (tail -f, in UNIX) the output from this to a filter but
haven't really had much time to experiment and develop anything.
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