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From: ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA@UNCAEDU.BITNET (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: Print symbionts
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Date: 16 Jun 88 15:01:53 GMT
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I have now gotten our print symbiont successfully debugged without taking
out the job controller.  Thanks to all who offered the help (especially
Nick Bush, who responded first).

To summarize, the most important thing to remember is to NEVER write to
SYS$OUTPUT or SYS$ERROR.  Doing so will cause the job controller to
up and die and get users annoyed.  Establish a condition handler to trap
for all conditions (and don't let it exit with a SS$_RESIGNAL condition :-))
and you should be okay.

        .../Ed