[Info-vax] About $ run /mailbox DCL command

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Tristan Gingold wrote 2012-01-04 14:39:
> On Jan 1, 1:55 am, Jim Duff<spam.t... at 127.0.0.1>  wrote:
>> $ create/mailbox/perm byebye
>> $ sh log byebye
>>     "BYEBYE" = "MBA1715:" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
>> $ run /det/input=nl:/output=nl: sys$system:loginout.exe/mailbox=1715
>> %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 2020BA2B
>> $ open in byebye
>> $ read in rec
>> $ close in
>> $ stat = f$extract (4,4,rec)
>> $ a = f$cvui (0,32,stat)
>> $ sh sym a
>>    A = 1   Hex = 00000001  Octal = 00000000001
>> $ delete/mailbox byebye
>> %DELETE-I-MBXDEL, Mailbox BYEBYE has been marked for deletion
>
> Do you know if it is possible to use read/time_out on mailbox ?  I was
> unable to make it working.
>
> Even worse,
>
> $ create/mailbox byebye
> $ open in byebye
> $ read in rec
>
> looks to block DCL.  C-y or C-c were useless.
>
> Tristan.

I had a similar case. For a test I did that in a COM file.
Read the mailbox, logged on screen and the re-read the mailbox.
I had to send a specific string ("exit") and test on that before
re-reding the mailbox to exit the COM file...