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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/1/2019 4:05 AM, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> 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??
> 
> 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.

Without F$EDIT quoted string semantics: yes.

Arne