VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Chapter 3
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XEQ Command Parameters
filename
This parameter specifies the name of the file that contains the command to be
executed. If omitted, the commands will come from the $STDIN.
count
This parameter specifies the number of times to execute the commands. The
default is 1 unless the WAIT= parameter is specified, in which case the
default is repeated forever.
seconds
This parameter specifies the number of seconds to delay between executions of
the commands. The default is 60 seconds.
number This parameter specifies the XEQ process number to use for this instance of
NBSpool. You can either use an integer between 0 and 8 or use SET
MAXPROCS, which allows up to 99 processes.
DEVICE
This parameter specifies a list of actual spooled devices. It activates waiting
spooler processes. If a spool file becomes ready for a device or device class, it
will cause a waiting XEQ command to begin processing commands. This
parameter can only be specified from a NBSpool Spooler process.
Priority
When executing in BACKGROUND, allows control over the execution
priority. Can be a value of CS, DS, or ES.
BACKGROUND
This parameter executes the specified command as a son process in the
background. Control is returned to the original process when the background
process is started.
SHOW
This parameter causes all commands to be echoed as they are executed.
SHORT
This parameter causes the output of headers and commands to be suppressed.
This can drastically reduce the size of the $STDLIST for XEQ jobs.