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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

460.0. "DOCUMENT /BATCH and MMS" by 50372::CAAHANS (Hans Bachner, ADG Munich) Wed Jun 03 1987 09:53

    We currently try to use MMS to keep our documentation up-to-date,
    but found a funny behaviour today:
    
    If I define
    
    DOCUMENT /BATCH /more_qualifiers source.SDML doctype destination
    
    to be the execution part of an MMS dependency table, the /BATCH
    qualifier seems to be ignored - I get all DOCUMENT messages to
    the terminal and must wait until all the tag translation, TEX
    formatting, ... stuff has finished.
    
    If I enter the *same* command interactively, the behaviour is as
    expected.
    
    Any ideas ?
    Hans.
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460.1CLOSET::PELTZ�lvynstar Dun�dainWed Jun 03 1987 11:446
         Bug, will be fixed for V1.0  -- Gee, this is an obscure
         feature of MMS and was never tested for, thanks for pointing
         it out.
         
         Chris
460.2 Thanks ! 50372::CAAHANSHans Bachner, ADG MunichWed Jun 03 1987 12:171
    
460.3if f$mode() .EQS. "OTHER" then this must be MMSWRONGO::PARMENTERWed Jun 03 1987 17:255
     In case you were wondering, the problem was that in MMS, f$mode()
    returned "OTHER" rather than "INTERACTIVE" or "BATCH",  I always
    wondered what "OTHER" could possible mean, and now we know. 
                                                                 
    David Parmenter
460.4Maybe a related problemCONRAD::SERACKKen SerackWed Jun 03 1987 17:5117
    We are also having a problem with document and mms.
    
    It seems that if I do:
    
    	$ document file doctype dest /NOLOG
    
    as my mms command line, I get a lot of 0 length records in the output
    stream during text formatting. Actually the log file contains 0
    length records even outside of mms. They do not show up when you
    type the file, but if you do a dump/record, all of the records are
    shown and there are a lot of 0 lengths.
              
    Is it possible that TEX is outputting 0 length records for some
    reason, and could they be turned off?
    
    Ken Serack
    DECwest
460.5Not related, but fixed.WRONGO::PARMENTERVenusian or Venerean?Thu Jun 04 1987 11:423
    Yes that is fixed too.  No the problem was not related.  
    
    David