I want to suppress the display of the D3 "Entry # nnn" message when I
print a report, but "SP-ASSIGN M" isn't good enough. Why? Because that
command will reset any other spooler assignment options that are in
operation.

I suppose I /could/ do an "SP-ASSIGN ?" and work out the other options I
need to specify in order to keep everything else the same, but that
seems a lot of work just to such a simple thing. Can anybody help me?
I'm guessing not, but I thought it best to ask. ;^)

Platform is D3 7.4.3.NT.

TIA,
Luke

Yes, M is one of the options that doesn't "keep" the others in place. If it
didn't work that way, how could you ever turn it off?

If not being able to turn it off is not a problem, replace SP-ASSIGN with a
front-end that appends M to whatever the user entered and just keep it
always off.

Mark Brown


"Luke Webber" <luke (AT) webber (DOT) com.au> wrote

Mark Brown wrote:
Thanks for that, Mark. It's not worth my while to get that detailed
here, so I guess I'll just have to put up with the message.

Cheers,
Luke

As a semi-lame workaround, place a "DISPLAY @(x,y):" right before the spot
where the spooler entry message is produced. At least that way you can make
the message display in a pre-determined location, which is certainly more
aethestically appealling.

"Luke Webber" <luke (AT) webber (DOT) com.au> wrote

Luke Webber <luke (AT) webber (DOT) com.au> wrote:

Luke, what's so detailed?
*--- new SP-ASSIGN program ---
tclread command
command = oconv(command,'g1 999') ; * strip the verb
if not(index(command,'?',1)) then command := "m"
execute "sp-assign-old ":command
*-----------------------------
Now 'copy md sp-assign (d)' to sp-assign-old
compile-catalog bp sp-assign

And you're done.
HTH
T