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Revision 2.6 by greg, Fri Dec 2 14:02:12 1994 UTC vs.
Revision 2.8 by greg, Tue Dec 6 13:00:26 1994 UTC

# Line 1077 | Line 1077 | rendering, selects the view or views to render in batc
1077   If the special entry "ALL" is selected, then every view in the
1078   current list will be rendered if it hasn't been already.
1079  
1080 + The view menu next to the "rview" button will be disabled if there
1081 + is only one view to choose from.
1082 + The view menu next to the "Start" button will be disabled if there
1083 + is a batch job in progress, and thus the view cannot be changed.
1084 +
1085   The batch rendering view menu also selects the view or views
1086   to use in producing a script during a dry run.
1087  
# Line 1097 | Line 1102 | disabled, and rendering progress can be monitored by c
1102   the error file periodically.
1103   (This file is named by the root of the rad input file followed by
1104   ".err".)
1105 < When a batch process is started or already running, this button
1106 < will be disabled.
1105 > When a batch process is started or already running, or when a
1106 > process is on another host and its status is unknown,
1107 > this button will be disabled.
1108  
1109   The background process can be killed during this or later
1110   invocations of trad using the "Kill" button.
1111 + If the process was started on another machine and the status is unknown,
1112 + it will be necessary to run trad from the other host or remove the error
1113 + file manually before starting a background process on this machine.
1114 + This is to protect you from the great confusion that results when two
1115 + machines are working from the same project file.
1116  
1117   .Action.Kill
1118  
# Line 1116 | Line 1127 | screen, no data is lost by killing and restarting a ba
1127   rendering, though some new startup costs will be incurred.
1128  
1129   The "Kill" button is disabled if no running batch process is
1130 < detected.
1130 > detected on the current host machine.
1131  
1132   .Action.CheckErr
1133  

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