[Info-vax] [VMS983] SDA in non terminal mode?

[Paul Sture]

In article <hjpr8e$e21$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>,
 Keith Parris <keithparris_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER wrote:
> > Is there perhaps a way to tell SDA to *not* use SMG in interactive mode
> > (like DFU freeware does with the DFU$NOSMG logical)?
> ...
> > and not having the annoying
> > 
> >     Press RETURN for more.
> > 
> > (and a clear screen at the end) in output
> 
> Perhaps you could use SET OUTPUT to send the output to a file instead of 
> to the screen, or use one the following features available in recent 
> versions of SDA:
> 
> SDA> help set erase_screen
> 
> SET
> 
>    ERASE_SCREEN
> 
>         Enables or disables the automatic clearing of the screen before
>         each new page of SDA output.
> 
>         Format
> 
>           SET ERASE_SCREEN  {ON|OFF}
> 
> 
> 
> 
>      Additional information available:
> 
>      Parameters
> 
> SET ERASE_SCREEN Subtopic?
> SET Subtopic? output
> 
> SET
> 
>    OUTPUT
> 
>         Redirects output from SDA to the specified file or device.
> 
>         Format
> 
>           SET OUTPUT  [/[NO]INDEX|/[NO]HEADER|
> 
>                       /PERMANENT|/SINGLE_COMMAND] filespec
> 
> 
> 
> 
>      Additional information available:
> 
>      Parameter  Qualifiers
>      /INDEX     /NOINDEX   /HEADER    /NOHEADER  /PERMANENT /SINGLE_COMMAND
> 
> SET OUTPUT Subtopic?

I've just tried this:

SDA> set output x.txt/single
SDA> show summary
SDA> exit

and got 3 pages in the output file, without any prompts. I think this is 
what Peter wants.

-- 
Paul Sture