FXHELP@ALASKA.BITNET (UAF Computer Support Group) (07/25/87)
I'd like to offer a "second" to Dan Graham, who writes: > There are many new VMS system managers and programmers on this net who > would be afraid to ever ask anything after reading the above referred > material. This should not be so. If we more experienced can't offer > assistance to those less so, than this net is a waste of time. Amen, and thanks, Dan! If anyone feels they know enough that they no longer need an occasional pointer from a colleague, and is no longer interested in the general flow of PD "hacks" and just "what's going on in the world," they are quite free to drop their subscription. Personally, I have learned quite a bit from my subscription, and even though it sometimes gets bothersome to read twenty duplicate answers to a reasonably novice question, I feel that it's worth it; sometimes those twenty answers are each slightly different, and they all deal with something I don't know! The VAX/VMS doc set is indeed a lot, but even worse, information is not always where you expect to find it -- if it's in the doc set, at all! (This is all leading up to my novice question!) Which is: Anyone know if it's possible (or how) to PRINT a file directly from tape? The manual says PRINT file_spec; the other manual says MUA10:filename.type is a valid file_spec, but the two don't go together. Neither does re-direction of SYS$OUTPUT..? I imagine VMS would rather not spool a file from tape? So, there's my opinion, plus another possibly lame-brained question. ************************************************************************* * Jo Knox / UAF Computer Support Group / University of Alaska Fairbanks * * ``he never said a mumblin' word!'' * *************************************************************************
carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) (07/28/87)
> Anyone know if it's possible (or how) to PRINT a file directly from tape? The > manual says PRINT file_spec; the other manual says MUA10:filename.type is a > valid file_spec, but the two don't go together. Neither does re-direction of > SYS$OUTPUT..? I imagine VMS would rather not spool a file from tape? I'm not sure, but I suspect that the command: $ COPY MUA10:filename.type print_device:filename.type will do pretty much what you want. If print_device is spooled and associated with a print queue, then the copy command should enter a copy of the file into the print queue.