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Invocation Techniques for Background Monitoring
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a terminal will cause that session to become the background SirFile task:
that is, it will enter a “sleep” state that is not interruptable unless it is
bumped.
You can also use the SIRFILE BATCH command to invoke a refresh once; see
“Running SirFile under BATCH204” on page 35 , which describes the most useful way to
do this.
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