[Info-vax] CSWS symbols

[jo jimbo]

Thanks, your site has helped out a lot.  I'm still left with the lingering 
question, How do they do it?  A symbol is a symbol, except in different 
levels, that's what I always thought.  So how are the actually hidden?

Regards,  Jim



"Neil Rieck" <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
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On Mar 19, 10:13 pm, "jo jimbo" <joji... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Doing some work with CSWS I've (again) been frustrated by it's hiding of
> symbols passed into a cgi script. You can't just have a dcl script that
> does a "show symbol/all" to see everything that's available. At least in
> 1.3 that's the way it is, not so sure about later versions. You can only
> access a symbol if you know the name, like "show symbol query_string". So
> I'm wondering why that was done and even more how did they do it?
>
> BTW, the alpha XP900 under my desk doesn't seem so cozy today as it was in
> the winter what with spring hurtling to summer here out west. It is a 
> great
> little box, but I need to move it somewhere else.
>
> Regards, Jim

It is a security thing. You can enable debugging for development then
disable it for production. Here is a list of the server logicals for
csws 1.3

http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/openvms_notes_apache.html
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/openvms_notes_apache.html#tip2-server-logicals

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/