[Info-vax] x86 Update 4/22/19

[John Reagan]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 9:56:45 AM UTC-4, John Reagan wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 9:05:05 AM UTC-4, Carl Friedberg wrote:
> > I recall (a  few years ago) the TECO was a part of the VMS build process.
> > Is that still true?
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:40 AM clair.grant--- via Info-vax <
> > > wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 8:24:43 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > > > On 2019-04-22, clair.grant<>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > http://www.vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html
> > > > >
> > > > > We are now down to the final Proof Point I had listed on the website.
> > > > >
> > > > > Proof Point #27 - Execute DIRECTORY command
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes, but you missed out the most important step: When do you get TECO
> > > > running on x86-64 ? :-)
> > > >
> > > > Seriously however, well done for getting to this stage.
> > > >
> > > > I mentioned TECO BTW, because in previous ports didn't some people
> > > > actually use it within VMS Engineering and hence wanted it on the
> > > > new platform as soon as possible ?
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone at VSI actually still use it ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > <<<CG: Yes
> > > >>>
> > >
> > > > Simon.
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> No longer.  I poked around and did find one old use of TECO to post-process some special SDL files.  But that appears to have been a "one-time" event and isn't part of the current build for any target.

I've been corrected.  I missed a

$ MUNG := $SYS$SYSTEM:TECO32 mung

symbols and subsequent uses of MUNG.

I've already suggested replacing those with perl or something.  None of the transformations are complicated.