[Info-vax] DCL, was: Re: Microkernel

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-12 11:10:59 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> In VMS, when you write out the recall history to a file, there's no way to
> isolate the commands entered at the DCL prompt during the current session
> from those loaded into the recall buffer at the start of the session.

While you're processing the recall buffer (at login or at logout), 
append a demarcation as a DCL command into the recall buffer as the 
last line of the historical record, then search for that demarcation 
when performing your buffer-merge processing.  A comment line with a 
prearranged format should work.  And some user-friendly data could be 
embedded into that same comment, while you're at it; a timestamp of the 
session and the cluster host name, for instance.

Yes,  Ugly.  This is DCL.  You were expecting an elegant solution?


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