[Info-vax] Non-portable code

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>> 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
> <snip>
> 
> There is a DCL syntax checker written in DCL by Charles XXXXXXX.  Give 
> me a few days and I'll think of his surname.

It only took a couple of hours.  DCL_CHECK.COM written by Charlie Hammond!