[Info-vax] queue errors

[Tom Adams]

On Oct 17, 5:01 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
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> abrsvc wrote 2012-10-17 03:06:
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> > On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:22:53 PM UTC-4, (unknown) wrote:
> >> IIRC (and it's been a while), Fortran defaults to file names like
> >> FORnnn.DAT if you don't specify a file in the OPEN command or you
> >> don't have a logical name FORnnn pointing to a file. I suggest that
> >> you check the name of the file you were trying to write to. Also, did
> >> you compile with /CHECK ? Memory corruptions can cause error messages
> >> that refer to unrelated issues (e.g. odd hardware, odd system
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> > We do this all the time at the client where I now am working.  Yes, the
> > default filename is FORxxx where the xxx is the Fortran unit number.
> > This is common for printfiles that are sent directly to a print queue.
> > The problem was likely a disconnec with the actual printer.  I have seen
> > this before.  You should be able to recover the file using
> > analyze/disk.
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> Now, *why* would one want to "recover" the file ?
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> If the file is lost from disk, just delete the queue entry.
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> If the file is still on-disk, just /RESTART the entry, maybe
> with a /REQUEUE=xxx to another queue if the error is persistent.
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> Or simply ask the end-user to reprint whatever it was.
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> > Dan

The files are log files from a system that don't make it to the
logger.  Not printed by an end-user.

But we do have it all in a disk log that loses nothing.  So the losses
are not real important, but they have gotten on a todo list prepared
by QA.

I am looking into this because the QA people tend to focus on the
paper log. A bit hidebound and not totally rational I know.

If I had the files, I could tell exactly what is missing from the
paper log with little effort.

As things stand, we go to the disk log if someone notices that
something seems to be missing from the paper log.  That has only
happened once in more than a decade.