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.c; Purge_notes Users Instructions and Examples
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.p; Purge_notes is a command procedure that has been developed to allow users 
to purge notes from VAXNotes conferences. The command requires that the person 
issuing it be a moderator in the conference that they wish to purge. If they 
are not a moderator and they issue this command, it will delete only those 
notes that belong to them. This could lead to confusion, and it is not the 
recomended use of the command.
.p; Purge_notes will access a conference as requested and then purge the notes 
from specific topics from the conference. There are five parameters to the 
procedure, and all must be on the command line (there is no prompting). Three 
of the parameters are required and two are optional parameters.
.p; The command line takes the form of:
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$ @CMPROC:PURGE_NOTES CONF NOTE_ID-NOTE_ID KEEP_DAYS RESUB_OPT PRINT_OPT
                       ^          ^            ^         ^        ^
                       P1         P2           P3        P4       P5


	P1 = Conference name
	P2 = up to 10 topic identifiers seperated by "-", no spaces allowed
		a topic identifier is the numeric value for the topic note
	P3 = the number of days to keep 
		messages not older than P3 are *not* deleted

	(The above parameters are *required* in order to operate the process)

	P4 = A resubmit option that allows for submission to the batch queue.
		The following are acceptable responses:
			Y = resubmit in 365 days
			M = resubmit in 30 days
			W = resubmit in 7 days
			D = resubmit in 24 hours
	P5 = A print option that will print to the printserver 40 all notes 
		that are purged. This command requires that the LP command
		written by Bob Altman be defined as LP in your global symbol
		table. To turn this option on requires that a "Y" be passed as 
		the value. It is recomended that this option be set on.

If P5 is to be issued and P4 is not, the P4 location must be filled with a null 
value using the value ""  .
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.p; Below are some examples of how the command can be issued:
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1) Delete anything in tooics 5,8 and 9 in conference STAFF_NOTES older than one 
month and print the deleted files out:

$ @CMPROC:PURGE_NOTES STAFF_NOTES 5-8-9 30 "" Y

2) Same command sent to the batch queue:

$ SUBMIT/NOLOG CMPROC:PURGE_NOTES /PARAM=(STAFF_NOTES,5-8-9,30,"",Y)

3) Same command adding topic 13 and telling it to submit itself hereafter every 
week.

$ @CMPROC:PURGE_NOTES STAFF_NOTES 5-8-9-13 30 W Y

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.p; Using the command syntax as provided, this command has the flexability to 
only require the initial run interactivly. Every run thereafter will resubmit 
the process to the batch queue to rerun at the specified time.
.p; It is important to note that the batch process is resubmitted without 
generation of a log file. this has been done to reduce the amount of disk space 
that the process will use. It is also important to remember to pickup any 
output that is generated by this procedure. If the output is not picked up 
within two days it will be thrown away.
.p; This command is designed to run only on those nodes that are licensed to 
run VAXNotes. Currently those nodes are DEV1 and SIM07. It uses the 
NOTES$NOTEBOOK of the person issuing the command and therefor requires that 
that person have the name of the conference that they wish to access in thier 
personal notebook.
.p; If there are any problems using the command, please feel free to contact 
the author, J.M. Ivler ext: 86727.