[Info-vax] capture program output into a symbol ?

[Pierre]

On Apr 18, 3:41 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
[...]
> If it weren't that popen() interferes with PIPE, I would have suggested to
> him that he get my SYMBOL program to write the output to the symbol.  PIPE
> and SYMBOL can directly affect a symbol in any procedureal level making it
> much less cumbersome to follow the logic and fewer subprocesses and logical
> name games.
> --
> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG

hi,

is it possible using "symbol" to set a local symbol, but in the
previous/upper local DCL symbol frame ?

$ call foobar
...
$ foobar:subroutine
$ <call "symbol" to set a local symbol in the procedure outside of the
foobar subroutine>

is "symbol" buildable on VMS8.3/8.4 Itanium ?

TIA,
Pierre.