[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[John Reagan]

On Monday, July 3, 2017 at 9:50:18 AM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> 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".

Can I save this reply for the next discussion about replacing DCL with a scripting language like Python or even BASIC? :) :) :)