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Capturing output from third-party package?

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The Question is:

 
The article "How to capture the scrollback on an x-terminal" gives a simple
command procedure
to capture the output of commands run under
DCL, etc.  I have a 3rd party process that runs
and I can see the output file grow by watching
DIR/FULL filename, but when the job finishes
all that is left are lines like these:
 ELAPSED:    0 00:00:00.00  CPU: 0:00:00.00  BUFIO: 0  DIRIO: 0  FAULTS: 0
 ELAPSED:    0 00:00:00.00  CPU: 0:00:00.01  BUFIO: 2  DIRIO: 0  FAULTS: 1
and the file size is a fraction of the 'growing' size.  Can anything be done
to save
the output?
 
TIA
 
 

The Answer is :

 
  Please contact the third-party support organization for assistance
  in capturing the contents of the output file.
 
  The SET FILE/END_OF_FILE command can be used to capture output written
  to a file, when the end of file is not moved to the end of the file
  when the file is closed -- this can be a factor when the application
  fails, but is not usually a factor when the application terminates
  normally.  Further, this operation may or may not show any useful
  additional information in the application file.
 
  The text displayed is potentially the output from the OpenVMS
  lib$show_timer call, which the OpenVMS Wizard would not expect to be
  the usual output found in a program log file.
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 20-SEP-1999 )
     
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