[Info-vax] iomacs.mlb

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In article <q25lf3$8c4$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>On 1/21/2019 4:52 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2019-01-21 20:56:16 +0000, Emilio Moreno said:
>>
>>> it's a program I wrote for school a while back.
>>> I have the .lis file and it used iomacs.mlb
>>> I asked the school but they no longer have vaxes and these stuff is gone.
>>
>> Dig the Macro32 code for what was used out of the listings file, if it
>> was a complete listings file.
>>
>> There were a few references to iomacs as macros associated with an
>> appendix within a 25 or 30 year old DEC book on Macro32 programming.
>>
>> No idea if that book is online anywhere, but stuff from that era often
>> wasn't.
>>
>> There is a similarly-named I/O macros package at
>> https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax86a/wku/macroio/ — the doc
>> there is a text file.
>>
>> But it's Macro32.  Rewrite it.  Or replace it with some C or C++ code,
>> or with calls to the OpenVMS RTL services, or such.
>
>Such bias ....
>
>If you're going to re-write it, try Basic ...
>
>:-)
>
>Actually, if it is using RMS files, there are many ways to do so, 
>including direct calls to RMS, or any of the languages that support RMS 
>access.
>
>If you can specify your needs, perhaps someone will have some code that 
>might help you.

Posting his code could certainly help.  I, as well as others, have many of
the books that were used as course materials for many VAX Assembly courses.
If I, or others, could see the calls he's referring to, someone may be able
to find the reference to his macro library in our dusty old tomes.

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