One word :   Unix continuation character.   Oh OK so that's 3!

The first / in /tmp is signalling a continuation character to the shell
(you didn't say unix but it looks that way.)

I'm not sure what fixes it.  a \ (backslash) to cancel the slash or put it
all in quotes.  (If its not unix then just put it all in quotes.
.. joe.f.

Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley


On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Jason Morgan - I.T. wrote:

> I'm trying to do a query event * * in a script and pipe the output to a
> file. I keep getting the following:-
>
> ANS8028E Command longer than maximum of 1500 characters.
> ANS8009E Exiting due to command or option errors.
>
> ANS8002I Highest return code was 8.
>
> The line in my script is as follows
>
> dsmadmc -id=passwd -pa=passwd q event * * > /tmp/event.lst
>
> If I try q db for example everything works ok
>
> If I go into ADSM and try the same command everything works ok.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
> Jason Morgan
> Technical Support Analyst
> Blaenau Gwent C.B.C
>
> Telephone: 01495 355230
> Email: Jason.Morgan AT blaenau-gwent.gov DOT uk
>