[Info-vax] Non-portable code

[Marc Van Dyck]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote on 7/01/2010 :
>
> I, on the other hand, rather like doing things in DCL... :-)
>
I have done a lot of DCL too. But I would probably use it more
if it had a decent debugger and if it was possible to use the
CLD like you can do it from a program. Have entries in DCL tables
that trigger a procedure rather than a .exe, and within the procedure
test the presence and retrieve qualifier values via lexical functions.
Now, that would be cool... Something like

$ VERB process
define command PROCESS
procedure process_file.com
qualifier START, value (required)
$


$ process /start=3
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$ IF F$CLI ("START", "PRESENT") THEN x = F$CLI ("START", "VALUE")
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$ EXIT

-- 
Marc Van Dyck