Introduction of Calling Quick Screens as Functions

[Darren Reely]

For those non VMS users. On Unix $NULL translates to /dev/null and QUICK 
is spelled with lower case letters. Ok, I'm assuming some naivety here.

Also "quick NOTERMPOLL" seems to be only for MPE/iX and OpenVMS systems.

Darren.

Michael Lee wrote:

> Hi Viet,
>
> There are a couple of ways to set the terminal type including, I 
> think, a SETVAR command. I usually just add the TERM option to the 
> QUICK command as follows:
> QUICK AUTO=qkgo TERM=VT100
>
> The type of terminal doesn't really matter unless you need it to 
> display as I've occasionally needed for debugging purposes. To find a 
> valid type enter QUICK NOTERMPOLL online and enter a ?. This will show 
> a list of valid types. I've almost always used VT100 though and not 
> had any difficulties (excepting the one debugging attempt).
>
> You should also make sure to redirect the output so you don't get a 
> bunch of extra lines in your job script. Just modify the above line 
> slightly as follows:
> QUICK AUTO=qkgo TERM=VT100 > $NULL
>