[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[David Froble]

Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 7/2/2017 10:14 PM, David Froble wrote:
> 
>  > I guess my question is "why is anyone using integers of such magnitude
>  > in DCL?"
> 
> When we support larger than 2TB disks, there will be issues with
> 
> write sys$output f$getdvi( "big disk", "maxblock" )
> 
> There is no good way to fix this (and problems like this one), other
> than defining a new item code that returns a string.
> 

Well, Ok, but, when I want to see anything about the disks, I've got a symbol 
"SYD" that is "SHOW DEVICE D", and I'm guessing that invokes a non-DCL program, 
which could support larger than 32-bit integers.

I guess it is because I see "DCL" as "Digital COMMAND Language", not "Digital 
PROGRAMMING Language".