On Tuesday, 09/08/2009 at 09:21 EDT, Bruce Hayden <bjhay...@gmail.com> wrote: > With PROP, it seems, you can't. I tried to write some automation > using PROP about a year ago, and couldn't get it to work. Linux may > write multiple lines on the console with a single I/O, separating each > line with a newline character. CP writes the output on the console as > separate lines. But, if you also send the output to a secondary user > and use *MSG to read it (as PROP does), CP does not split up the lines > - you get one line per I/O with embedded newlines. PROP seems to have > a limit on how long of a line it will scan for a matching message. I > just looked to see if this was documented, but I didn't find it.
PROP will read a maximum of 960 bytes, what it believes is 12 80-character lines. There is an old PROP APAR VM48600 from 1992 that fixes this problem for CP output (class 3, 6, 7). Dunno why it wasn't fixed for VMCONIO. And I don't know if anyone has opened a PMR. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
