Re: ENDOFJOB.COM similiar to SYLOGIN.COM and LOGIN.COM

From: John Laird (nospam_at_laird-towers.org.uk)
Date: 11/11/03


Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:21:08 +0000

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:35:25 -0600, brandon@dalsemi.com (John Brandon)
wrote:

>When a batch process (or any process for that matter) is created the loginout
>(I assume) executes SYLOGIN.COM and (typically) LOGIN.COM prior to the submited
>command procedure is executed.
>
>Working on a couple of projects I came to the conclusion that it would be cool
>to have an ENDOFJOB.COM executed at the end of the batch job - as is
>SYLOGIN.COM executed at the beginning of the batch job.
>
>A number of ways to acomplish this come to mind - however this requires
>changes to many a command procedure.
>
>Just kind of dreaming, any thought's on this? Or have I come to the final
>command procedure IAMNUTS.COM ?

>From the System Manglers Manual:

"The system does not provide for automatic execution of a command procedure
at logout time."

You can redefine LOGOUT, but as the manual goes on to say there is a myriad
of ways of not getting that far (and most folks I suspect simply don't put
$LOGOUT in their batch files anyway, for fairly obvious reasons).

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