Conference vaxuum::document_ft

666.0. "DOCUMENT/BATCH uses the user's SUBMIT command" by CASEE::CLARK (Ward Clark) Wed Jul 15 1987 11:00

    I have a personal definition for the SUBMIT command that invokes a
    command procedure.  One of the features of this procedure is that it
    puts a SET DEFAULT command on the front of the user's batch job (just
    like DOCUMENT/BATCH does).

    It appears that DOCUMENT/BATCH is issuing a SUBMIT command (either via
    LIB$DO_COMMAND or LIB$SPAWN).  This command is, in turn, invoking my
    command procedure.

    If it is the intent to honor user definitions of SUBMIT, that feature
    should be clearly documented (in HELP text) and the appropriate paper
    document.

    Otherwise, user definitions of SUBMIT need to be bypassed.  One way to
    do this is to use a SUBM_BY_DOCUMENT command instead of SUBMIT (since
    the command interpreter looks at only matches the first 4 characters of
    native command verbs.  (Yea, I know this is a kludge, but it works!)

    -- Ward

         I will discuss this with my group.
         
         Chris

    This is related to note 95 and its replies - the suggestion of a
    documented special symbol (95.3 ?) also holds for SUBMIT.
    
    Hans.