NAME
      LSF - load various LSF modules

SYNOPSIS
          use LSF;
          use LSF RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 1, PrintOutput => 1;


DESCRIPTION
      This is the base class of the LSF suite of modules. 'use
      LSF' will also preload all of the LSF modules at one time.
      Currently this includes:

            LSF::Job
            LSF::JobInfo
            LSF::JobGroup
            LSF::Queue
            LSF::JobManager

      Two error reporting strategies are available and can be
      set globally via the 'use LSF' statement or individually
      in each of the LSF modules. By setting the 'RaiseError'
      directive to true, or by using the RaiseError class
      method, the LSF modules will die on error, otherwise they
      will return false, setting $? to the exit value and $@ to
      the stderr of the LSF command line. Additionally the
      printing of LSF command line stdout and stderr can be con-
      trolled via the 'PrintOutput' and 'PrintError' directives
      or class methods of the same names.  Defaults are as
      above.

      For more information on any of these modules, please see
      its respective documentation.

      NOTE: FOR THESE MODULES TO WORK IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU
      INCLUDE THE LSF COMMAND LINES IN YOUR PATH.

CLASS METHODS
      LSF()
          Returns the LSF version string

      RaiseError( [ [ TRUE or FALSE ] ] )
          Controls whether LSF command line errors will be
          thrown. The default is FALSE. When called with no
          arguments returns the current value.

      PrintError( [ [ TRUE or FALSE ] ] )
          Controls printing to STDERR the stderr of the LSF com-
          mand line. The default is TRUE. When called with no
          arguments returns the current value.

      PrintOutput( [ [ TRUE or FALSE ] ] )
          Controls printing to STDOUT the stdout of the LSF com-
          mand line. The default is FALSE. When called with no
          arguments returns the current value.

HISTORY
      The LSF::Batch module on cpan didn't compile easily on all
      platforms i wanted.  The LSF API didn't seem very perlish
      either. As a quick fix I knocked these modules together
      which wrap the LSF command line interface. It was enough
      for my simple usage. Hopefully they work in a much more
      perly manner.

SEE ALSO
      the LSF::Batch manpage, the LSF::Job manpage, the
      LSF::JobInfo manpage, the LSF::JobManager manpage, the
      LSF::JobGroup manpage, the LSF::Queue manpage, the bsub
      manpage, the bjobs manpage, the bswitch manpage, the bdel
      manpage, the bkill manpage, the bstop manpage, the bmod
      manpage, the btop manpage, the bbot manpage, the brun man-
      page, the bqueues manpage, the bgadd manpage, the bgdel
      manpage, the bgmod manpage, the bghold manpage, the bgrel
      manpage

AUTHOR
      Mark Southern ([email protected])

COPYRIGHT
      Copyright (c) 2002, Merck & Co. Inc. All Rights Reserved.
      This module is free software. It may be used, redis-
      tributed and/or modified under the terms of the Perl
      Artistic License (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artis-
      tic.html)