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From: jfjr@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: batch log files and EDT
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Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 08:11:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 16 08:11:01 1987
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 Why do batch log files (files you get when you run a batch job with
NOPRINT) mildly upset EDT. When EDT is called to edit these files
it will complain with something like "input file not in standard
format". It will edit the file, and if you EXIT rather than quit
the resulting file is fine but I find it disconcerting that DEC
which produces quality stuff has one system program - the batch logger-
generating files that EDT another DEC program complains about. 
When I first saw this happen I thought that our system manager
screwed up but I saw this on another system (I am talking about
4.whatever) I ate my words but I am still curious.

                                             Jerry Freedman, Jr
                                             jfjr@mitre-bedford.ARPA

"Beware of programmers bearing screwdrivers"