[Info-vax] /END=label

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/27/2018 12:54 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/27/2018 8:18 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>> abrsvc used his keyboard to write :
>>>> The best you have it write a program that uses LIB$GET_SYMBOL,
>>>> LIB$SET_SYMBOL, and/or return something via $STATUS and then have the
>>>> DCL query the symbol and branch as desired.  A program cannot control
>>>> DCL's command processing flow from inside the program.
>>>
>>> I would agree with the above, but the OP indicated setting up a DCL
>>> command and I am assuming using the command tables.  So the question
>>> becomes:
>>>
>>> Can a user mimic the behavior by properly setting up the command
>>> tables rather than just using a DCL symbol?
>>
>> For the moment, I just set exit with ss$_endoffile in $status. I can
>> then test that in the next line and branch if needed. But I find the
>> /END=label method much more elegant...
> 
> What you're doing, as I understand it, is invoking a program from DCL, 
> and then exiting the program.  Personally, I find testing the result of 
> the program exit, and taking appropriate action, rather elegant.  Guess 
> this is a reason some like VMS, and some hate VMS, why some like Unix, 
> and some hate Unix.  Different people have different expectations.
> 
> 

Well, you can definitely do that in Unix.  I always thought the
same was true of VMS. (Something about "eels"?)

bill