Not sure why this initially went off-List.
On 9/29/21 10:21 AM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
Maybe I'm crazy but I would try it and find out which CPF message I got.
:-)
As a matter of fact, a few minutes after I broadcast my question, I hit
on a simple way to do exactly that: I made a copy of the CL program in
question (it's a front-end for doing a QShell "rm -r"; I call it
DELTREE, and the display file consists entirely of a confirmation screen
for the specified path), ripping out the QShell call, and tried it in a
batch job.
It crashed with a CPF4103, "Device *REQUESTER not found while opening
file DELTREE in library MERCURY."
And no, Larry, you're not crazy, and neither am I. Maybe the author of
the CL manual and/or the helptext was a bit nuts, for having not
documenting what Mr. Dow pointed out about having to direct it to a device.
(A couple of decades ago, I found out about acquiring devices, and wrote
a test program to do just that; I don't think I ever did find a
practical use for it.)
--
JHHL
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