[Info-vax] Non-portable code

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Marc Van Dyck wrote:

> Jan-Erik Söderholm formulated on mercredi :
>>
>> Just so it's fully understood...
>>
>> Why not simply use ANALYZE/IMAGE ?
>> What extra does your Pascal program give ?
> 
> The program is integrated
> in DCL, you just type, for example "$ version acms" and it will return
> a line "ACMS   ACMS V5.1", getting the information from the
> executable associated to ACMS (in this case ACMSBOOT.EXE) in the
> reference file.

Sure. But the command "version" could just as will run a COM
file doing exactly the same thing using ANAL/IMAGE.

> I also added a /SYMBOL qualifier, so that you
> could type "$ version acms /symbol=acms_ident" way before ANAL/IMAGE
> had it.

Yes, that might explain why one did that *then*, not why one
would not use ANAL/IMAGE *today*.

> (not counting the fun of doing it)

Ah, now we are talking! Can't argue against that, can you ? :-)