[Info-vax] Looking for suggestions for new $GETDVI item codes

[kenneth.randell at verizon.net]

On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 4:43:50 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> > Try a DVI$_MAXBLOCK on a drive over 1.0 TB capacity and you get a 
> > negative number.  DVI$_FREEBLOCKS has the same issue.
> 
> FWIW, whatever programming language you're working with here (DCL?) is 
> apparently defaulting to a 32-bit, signed longword, integer 
> representation.

Yes in this case I was simply referring to DCL.  I know it should be unsigned 32-bit; I was just trying to point out that it would be handy to have areas like this in VMS looked at.  Or perhaps a new DVI$_xxx item code that returns these values in say GB or some other unit that scales into DCL's signed 32-bit values.