On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I suppose this is useful in the case where want the side effects
> of the preceding command, but not its output.  Nowadays, given the
> prevalance of PIPE, GETFMADR ought to have a (NOSTACK) option.

I believe it helps to show unexpected output rather than ignore it
because you did not expect any. It's very frustrating to see a tool
exit with RC=28 and maybe even report "File not found" where the
original messages would have told me *which* file was missing. It's
not always that simple, so I did this one a while ago:
http://rvdheij.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/conditional-output-of-cms-commands/

The advantages of a generic interface are obvious. If we were to
design the CMS again now that we have CMS Pipelines, nobody would care
about STACK, FIFO, LIFO, and STEM options for various commands.

| Sir Rob the Plumber

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