Updated February 2022; see History

The -q switch tells A-Shell to silence its screen output. This is normally only applicable under UNIX when you want to launch a child session (using XCALL HOSTEX) to perform some quick operation and you don’t want the user to see the resulting screen output. The normal approach, however, to this type of thing is to use the "Q" option in XCALL AMOS, which internally uses the -q switch under UNIX and alternate techniques under Windows.

Note that as of A-Shell 6.5.1711, the -q switch will also silence fatal abort messages. The only way to detect such conditions would then be to test the Process Exit Code.

History

2022 February, A-Shell 6.5.1711:  Switch now silences fatal abort messages.