[Info-vax] A SYS$ version of F$EDIT

[Bob Gezelter]

On Friday, May 31, 2019 at 9:35:51 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/31/2019 7:41 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> > but given OpenVMS is being ported to x86 (and my feelings are widely
> > known on that) the one thing they should add to make C not suck so
> > much on the platform is a SYS$EDIT which mirrors F$EDIT in
> > functionality.
> LIB$EDIT or STR$EDIT instead of SYS$EDIT may be more logical.
> 
> But if we just for a minute assume that VSI would be interested: do you
> really want F$EDIT quoted string semantics??
> 
> Arne

Most of the F$EDIT tasks are available, if I recall (do not have access at this instant), are available in the STR$ series of run-time routines. 

Separately, there are implementations of similar functionality in the C standard library.

F$EDIT is a convenient DCL gateway to such functionality.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com