[Info-vax] Command Procedure Pipe output to a variable

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/8/2021 7:04 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 5:29:50 AM UTC+13, Stephen Hoffman
> wrote:
>> Underpinning one of my grumbles about logical name usage and
>> symbol usage is that OpenVMS lacks a common means and API for app 
>> configuration storage, which leads to other issues not the least
>> of which are explosions of poorly-suited mechanisms including the
>> use of DCL symbols and logical names and system parameters, and
>> several dozen places where the "host name" resides. The volatile
>> and printable-MCS-only logical name key-value store is also not a
>> great fit for configuration data, discussions of its widespread
>> (mis)use for that purpose aside. And yes, y'all can put app
>> configuration settings down in the system parameters, too.
> 
> You are not suggesting that VMS adopt a Windows-style Registry, are
> you?

Like:

$ SET SERVER REGISTRY_SERVER /START

:-)

> Now there is a total, wonderful fustercluck: it’s supposed to be
> a multiuser database, allowing concurrent access and notification of
> changes made by one client to others. Yet none of that works.

It works.

>                                                              Which
> is why you need to reboot after making Registry changes.

You do not need to reboot.

> Stick with Unix-style text configuration files, kept in a common
> directory like /etc. With symbolic names for parameters, rather than
> long, random hex GUIDs!

There seems to be agreement on that among all the big
communities including Microsoft.

XML, JSON, YAML, properties, whatever.

Arne