[Info-vax] C... the only winning move is not to play...

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <52fbe291$0$9646$c3e8da3$e408f015 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>On 14-02-12 15:19, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> Not even close.  There's no STR$anything in DCL.
>
>Quite easy to fix:
>
>$STR$anything == "VAXman"
>
>Then, you can no longer state there is no STR$ANYTHING in DCL :-)
>
>Seriously though, Just because these routines are not "published" for
>DCL users does not mean that they would not be used internally for
>operarions such as $A = B + C   (where all 3 variables are strings)

I stated, emphatically, that they do not appear in DCL because I've been in
the DCL source many times.  Where they exist, minimally, is in the DCL CLI$
routines interface.  It really doesn't take too much more than a perusal of
DCL.MAP to determine this.

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