[Info-vax] iomacs.mlb

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In article <cc6ef237-c0fc-4d99-8c5d-2c18c38b02a6 at googlegroups.com>, "Craig A. Berry" <craig.a.berry at gmail.com> writes:
>On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 8:24:55 AM UTC-6, VAXman- wrote:
>> 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 g=
>one.
>> >>
>> >> 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/ =E2=80=94 th=
>e 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,=20
>> >including direct calls to RMS, or any of the languages that support RMS=
>=20
>> >access.
>> >
>> >If you can specify your needs, perhaps someone will have some code that=
>=20
>> >might help you.
>>=20
>> Posting his code could certainly help.  I, as well as others, have many o=
>f
>> the books that were used as course materials for many VAX Assembly course=
>s.
>> If I, or others, could see the calls he's referring to, someone may be ab=
>le
>> to find the reference to his macro library in our dusty old tomes.
>
>The Baase book mentioned upthread has listings of IOMAC and IOMOD in Append=
>ix D, pp. 390-93.  There is one called IOMACS (note the S at the end) in a =
>different book by Sebesta:

I pulled my copy of the Baase book from the bookshelf yesterday to peruse it.
I didn't feel like typing the IOMAC and IOMOD in for the OP. ;)  Pretty ugly
macro too.



><https://books.google.com/books?id=3D-0klMVQqT54C&dq=3DRobert+W.+Sebesta+va=
>x+macro&focus=3Dsearchwithinvolume&q=3Diomacs>

That's not the Baase book.
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