VMS Help CMS, FETCH, Qualifiers, /NOHISTORY  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Prevents CMS from appending the element history to the file. If
    you omit /NOHISTORY, and the retrieved element has the history
    attribute, the element history is included in the file when it is
    delivered to your current default directory. An element has the
    history attribute if you specified the /HISTORY qualifier on the
    CREATE ELEMENT or MODIFY ELEMENT command.