On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:35:31 -0500, Michael Coffin 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi Brian,
>
>When you instruct PIPE to execute a COMMAND (or a CMS command in your
>case) PIPE doesn't get control back until the command terminates.  The
>messages you want to see are being issued WHILE DDR is running, so PIPE
>can't do anything with them (display them or otherwise) until DDR
>terminates.

That's where a PIPE version of DDR would help.

>DDR is prompting you, you might want to look at setting
>prompts off and let your PIPE or EXEC react to any failure messages
>instead.

My test code didn't have PROMPTS OFF, but my original code does.

In any case, after the DDR completes is too late to react to messages lik
e 
END OF VOLUME when you want to know what new tape number is being mounted
.

Brian Nielsen

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