8.0;boff, revision 8.0, 84/3/14 BOFF -- Deactivate the Shell's -B flag. usage: boff FORMAT BOFF BOFF turns off the Shell's -B (display output of background process) flag, which is turned on by the BON command or the -B option on the SH command line. When the flag is off, the output of background processes created with the & parsing operator is sent to /DEV/NULL. This background process output is sent to /DEV/NULL by default. BOFF requires no arguments or options.