[Info-vax] BASIC and AST routines

[Neil Rieck]

John etc al,

Back in the day, I was under the impression that I could do almost anything I wanted in DEC-BASIC (given enough time). You mentioned the 5 standard parameters. I recall being here as well when I was first attempting to write my own code to call SYS$QIO and SYS$QIOW. It was around that time that I discovered errors in the official VMS documentation that did not agree with how things were done in the STARLET library. Anyway, here are three links: the first one is for doing $QIO from BASIC (one of the QIO examples includes an AST). The second is a "dog's breakfast menu" of my mostly DEC-BASIC demo code. The third is a menu of VMS notes where one entry shows you how to open any system library so you can see how things need to be declared for the language in question. Enjoy! 

http://neilrieck.net/demo_vms_html/qio_demo_bas.html
http://neilrieck.net/demo_vms_html/openvms_demo_index.html
http://neilrieck.net/links/openvms_resources.html#openvms-notes

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada