[Info-vax] What is your favorite tool lo look at open batch log files? I use a vested ICR LIST from 1988 (binary translated from VAX to Alpha)

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-08 kl. 10:39, skrev Jon Pinkley:
> On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 2:52:13 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <b7763814-0d4d-4985-b5a9-e820f0ce68e0o at googlegroups.com>, Jon
>> Pinkley writes:
>>
>>> The main thing I like about it is that it can read open batch log files,
>>> unlike an editor.
>>
>> EDIT/TPU/READ will allow one to view open batch log files...
>>
> 
> Phillip, thanks for pointing that out, I thought I tried using EDIT/TPU/READ, but I just verified that EDIT/TPU/READ does work, but EDIT/EDT/READ does not.
> 
> $ edt/read SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$FTP]TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG;1008
> %EDT-F-OPENIN, error opening SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$FTP]TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG;1008 as input
> -RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
> $
> 
> My guess is that I don't like EVE for large files, and when I tried EDIT/EDT/READ, I just assumed that EDIT/TPU/READ would be the same.
> 

Or, to get a constantly updated display:

TYPE/CONT/INT=1 <batch-logfile>

Together with $ SET OUTPUT_RATE=00:00:01 in the batch job.