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Show and Tell

     

AIPS has a facility by which you can change the adverbs of some tasks while they are running. To see which ones you can change, for ATLOD\ for example, enter the command SHOW ATLOD. You can then change their values and convey the new values to ATLOD with the command TELL ATLOD.

Perhaps the most useful thing is you can tell ATLOD to terminate gracefully at some point rather than being forced to abort it via ABORT ATLOD. If you aborted it, the file it is writing would be compromised if the I/O buffers have not been flushed to disk. As an example, you may have told ATLOD to load 20 files from tape, but you realize part way through that the 20th file is something you don't want. You could change nfiles to 19 while ATLOD is running.

Last update : 11/04/95



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