info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (08/21/85)
From: munnari!metro.oz!jimr@seismo.CSS.GOV Lars Palmer asks about giving print queues a concealed or logical name rather than a physical name under VMS V4. We use the following in SYSTARTUP.COM: $ DEFINE/TRANSLATION=(CONCEALED,TERMINAL)/SYSTEM CHEM$$PRINT TTA2: $ SET DEVICE/SPOOLED=(CHEM$PRINT,$INORG) CHEM$$PRINT $ INIT/QUEUE/START CHEM$PRINT/ON=CHEM$$PRINT where "$INORG" [exec] = "DRB0:" [concealed,terminal] (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE) The queue so defined looks like this to SHOW QUEUE: Terminal queue CHEM$PRINT, on CHEM$$PRINT One can use PRINT/QUEUE=CHEM$PRINT and TYPE/OUTPUT=CHEM$$PRINT successfully. The need for two different names (CHEM$PRINT for the queue and CHEM$$PRINT for the spooled device) is annoying, but doesn't cause much trouble in practice. On advice from DEC Telephone Support, we also tried $ DEFINE/SYSTEM/TRANS=(CONC,TERM) TEST$Q TTB2: $ INIT/QUEUE/ON=TEST$Q TEST$Q $ START/QUEUE TEST$Q: $ PRINT/QUEUE=TEST$Q: file $ STOP/NEXT TEST$Q: Note the colons! All this works as desired, and now the queue and the device have the same name. However, it does not seem to be possible to get spooling to work: whether one does $ SET DEVICE TEST$Q/SPOOLED=(TEST$Q,$INORG) or $ SET DEVICE TEST$Q/SPOOLED=(TEST$Q:,$INORG) the command TYPE/OUTPUT=TEST$Q[:] always gives the errors %TYPE-CLOSEOUT -RMS-DAC -SYSTEM-NOTPRINTED -- Jim Richardson, Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia ACSNET: jimr@metro.oz CSNET: jimr@metro.oz ARPA: jimr%metro.oz@seismo.arpa UUCP: ...!seismo!munnari!metro.oz!jimr