[Info-vax] vmsarg (was Re: Installing and using GNV - some feedback and questions)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/22/16 9:01 PM, BillPedersen wrote:

> OK, so you do not like the Linux "-switch" option methods. Well, I
> wasintroduced to a solution to that at Boot Camp this year. Tom Wade from
> Ireland introduced me to some code he device to convert Linux
> applications to accepting DCL style "/options". You can find out more
> about it here: http://www.tomwade.eu/software/vmsarg.html.

I'm pleased to see this is available again. I used it a decade or more
ago in FreeTDS to create drop-in replacements for the Sybase isql and
bcp utilities, but it seemed to drop off the net at some point. The C
code it generates is a bit funny-looking (IIRC it sort of looked like a
cross between K&R C and Pascal) but that's easily fixed and it's a huge
time saver compared to writing all the CLI glue code from scratch.