[Info-vax] queue errors

[Tom Adams]

On Oct 17, 8:58 am, Tom Adams <w.tom.ad... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> The files are log files from a system that don't make it to the
> logger.  Not printed by an end-user.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> If I had the files, I could tell exactly what is missing from the
> paper log with little effort.
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> 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.

Or rather a missing messsage was noticed and traced to this queue
error only once.

A paper jam can caused missed messages, but that is obvious to the
paper log reader.