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Re: supress the "more" prompt in dsmadmc

2003-10-15 12:45:27
Subject: Re: supress the "more" prompt in dsmadmc
From: Simeon Johnston <simeonuj AT INDIVISUALLEARNING DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:43:15 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bleicher, Thomas [mailto:bleicher AT NETZLINK DOT COM] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:51 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: supress the "more" prompt in dsmadmc
> 
> 
> Prather, Wanda wrote:
> 
> > dsmadmc has two modes, "interactive" and "batch".
> > 
> > You are running interactive, you will get the more prompt.
> > 
> > If you run it in batch, you will not get the more prompt.
> 
> I still geht the prompt, even when I execute commands in
> batch mode. But redirecting the output to a file or a pipe 
> works. On Unix systems the following should do the trick:
> 
>         dsmadmc -id=me -password=mine q actlog | cat
> 
> There is a pipe on MS-DOS as well (at least on my XP system).
> I just don't know the DOS equivalent for "cat" and a pipe
> to "more" is somewhat pointless ;)

"type" is the DOS equivalent, and you should be able to pipe on a DOS
system all the way back to actual DOS 6.x.  Not positive about that, but
it works in 2k.

Redirects also work ( > and >> ) to a file.

sim

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