SYSNET@cc.nu.oz (David Morrison) (08/03/89)
Is there a way to run NEWS in a batch job or as a command file and get all the output in a file? I have been trying to do this recently, with the following results: >$news/noscreen dir > VMS News - V5.8 (02-Mar-1989) [NewsManager Access Enabled] > >NEWS - > > Numbe > > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 7 > 8 > 9 > 10 > 11 >-> 12 > 13 > 14 > 15 > 16 > 17 > ><RETURN for more> > >NEWS - and >$news/noscr > VMS News - V5.8 (02-Mar-1989) [NewsManager Access Enabled] >sel alt.cyberpunk > Select - Newsgroup alt.cyberpunk (67 items) >show entry >Show En > >Newsgro >Title: >Prot:RW > >Created >Retenti >Note-Re >Count: >Status: >Access- There appear to be two problems: Only the first seven characters of each line are retained, and secondly, the program still pages the output, even though there is no need to. Is this behaviour a bug? A feature? A suggestion for a future version? (I have discovered that I can do the following: @tt:/output=file.lis news show entry * But... The output is paged, so I have to sit typing RETURN until I think it has finished. (Nothing appears on the screen so I cannot tell when the output has finished!) ) -- David Morrison, Network Manager, Uni of Newcastle, Australia Try sysnet@cc.nu.oz.au or sysnet@cc.nu.oz (mail only) or (VAX PSI) psi%newcastle.edu.au::sysnet or psi%0505249626002::sysnet