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

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In article <paul.nospam-273A5E.20250727012010 at pbook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>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.

That would do it.  Put it all in an SDA.INIT file with an EXIT since he
seems to want this as a single command producing the output.

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