[Info-vax] unspooling device

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<b5f9577c-427a-463f-bd36-a2f6e5a12f4a at j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
Volker Halle <volker_halle at hotmail.com> writes: 

> Phillip,
> 
> capture the dismount message on the console terminal during shutdown.
> It should tell you, WHY the disk cannot be dismounted. If you have a
> SET DEV/SPOOLED=disk device: in your startup procedure, you must issue
> a SET DEV/NOSPOOL device: during shutdown.
> 
> You don't need to stop the queue in SYSHUTDWN.COM, because this is
> done by SHUTDOWN.COM itself.
> 
> Maybe there is another device spooled to that disk ? You only need to
> spool a device to a queue, if you have an application, that writes
> DIRECTLY to the terminal device and you want the output to be handled
> as a real print job, because that device is shared with other print
> jobs.

OK, found this:

$ set device 'f$trnlnm("cannon:") /spool:(cannon, disk$scratch:[foobar])

which runs during startup.  However, I find it strange that I can't see 
any trace of this interactively (SHOW DEVICE etc), but nevertheless it 
causes problems at shutdown.  In particular,  SET DEV/SPOOLED tells me, 
interactively, that the device is not spooled.