[Info-vax] CSWS symbols

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In article <9ef8675f-0e4c-4076-8bf0-430374b743ad at r31g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, ken.fairfield at gmail.com writes:
>On Mar 23, 3:15=A0pm, "jo jimbo" <joji... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I tried that. =A0Show symbol remote_user works, the others don't. =A0Outp=
>ut from
>> my
>> cgi script is:
>>
>> $ show symbol remote_user
>> =A0 REMOTE_USER =3D "jgessling"
>> $ show sym/local/all
>> =A0 P1 =3D ""
>> =A0 P2 =3D ""
>> =A0 P3 =3D ""
>> =A0 P4 =3D ""
>> =A0 P5 =3D ""
>> =A0 P6 =3D ""
>> =A0 P7 =3D ""
>> =A0 P8 =3D ""
>> $ show sym/global/all
>> =A0 $RESTART =3D=3D "FALSE"
>> =A0 $SEVERITY =3D=3D "1"
>> =A0 $STATUS =3D=3D "%X00030001"
>> =A0 APACHE$DCL_CMD =3D=3D "@APACHE$COMMON:[PROTECTED-BIN]TEST.COM"
>>
>> Still confused.
>>
>> Jim
>
>Search for the thread with the title, "Q: (long) DCL
>symbols not appearing in Show Symbol output
>[SLS V2.9H]" which I posted in, oh, mid-to-late 2007.
>
>In the context of procedures called from SLS, I wanted
>to know what symbols were available.  And I couldn't
>find some I already *knew* were present with wither
>Show Symbol/Global/All or Show Symbol/Local/All .
>
>The upshot is that there is a *third* class of symbols
>which neither of the above Show Symbol will show:
>local symbols defined in an outer procedure.  You
>can show global symbols, and you can show symbols
>defined local to your own procedure, but you can't
>show (/all) symbols local to another procedure.  If
>you already know one of these in-between symbol's
>name, then you can show it with
>Show Symbol <the_name>, but you can't get  list
>of them.
>
>Curious, methinks, but that's the answer, such as
>it is...

SYMBOL might help you diagnose whatever problem(s) you are having with CSWS
and DCL symbols.


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