[Info-vax] unspooling device

[Doug Phillips]

On Dec 19, 7:04 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> In article
> <b5f9577c-427a-463f-bd36-a2f6e5a12... at j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
>
>
>
> Volker Halle <volker_ha... 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])
>

What does WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$TRNLNM("cannon:") or SHOW LOGI CANNON:
show? How about "cannon" without the colon?