[8284] in Athena Bugs
Re: vax 7.3M: olist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 27 13:00:32 1991
From: lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 91 13:01:17 -0400
To: Beth Kevles (Full Time Consultant) <kevles@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8283]
Reply-To: lwvanels@mit.edu
>What were you trying to do?
> olist
>
> Notice "yba" in the output.
> The last few lines of the listing are:
...
>
>[on-duty]
>yba@ELVIRA.MIT.EDU [0] + sp2 0 on-duty 12/31 1900
>
> Well, if you do "olcr list" you get:
>
>jrk@M11-116-10 [0] unseen 0 c 09/27 1125
> yba [0] sp2
This is the correct output; they both mean that "yba" is signed on-duty,
priority level "sp2". "olist" and "olcr list" are not completely
interchangeable; they take different flags, and their output may be
formatted differently. The primary use of "olist" is for quickly retrieving
the queue listing without additionally processing, usually for parsing by
other programs. Because of this, the output is formatted in such a way that
it can be easily separated into fields; for the output of "olcr list", this
was not easily done.
-Lucien
