BATCH - using FRED in batch.

FRED programs may be executed from GCOS8 batch using the following JCL:

$      program   fred
$      limits    10,40k
$      prmfl     **,r/c,r,cmdlib/etc/qstar
command line or FRED commands

If the first line of input after the $PRMFL card begins with the command name fred, it is assumed to be a command line for a FRED program. Otherwise, the input is assumed to be a sequence of FRED commands. Note that this input will be converted to BCD, and therefore single case. The O+IL option may be useful to distinguish cases.

Batch FRED has several differences from TSS FRED:

The ! command does not work.
O+P has no effect on output; however, FO will give the current pagesize setting.
After a file I/O operation, the number register is not set to the number of blocks read. File I/O will not tell you whether a file is temporary or permanent.
The special commands W3 and W7 write Media-3 (BCD print image) and Media-7 (ASCII print image) files, respectively. Each time you issue one of these commands, FRED attaches a different report code to the output, starting at zero and increasing by one; this wraps around at octal 70.

If there is no I* data present, FRED will instead use the system console (TY2) for interactive input/output.