[Info-vax] An old program I found, a hack allowing for using recall /input from within a login script

[Stephen Tyree]

Folks,

I was looking through some old code of mine, and I found a program I had written that allowed you to leverage recall/input from a login script... by way of mucking with the program's process level using executive mode privileges. See for yourself:

https://pastebin.com/PTFseGkz

You would compile it with an mmk file such as:

!
! Flags for controlling compilation/linking
!
CXX = CXX
CXXFLAGS = /model=ansi/reentrancy=multi/exceptions/standard=strict/switch="const_string_literals"-
           /nopure_cname/ansi_alias/assume=(stdnew,trusted_short_alignment,nopointers_to_globals)-
           /float=ieee/ieee_mode=fast/architecture=HOST/opt=(LEVEL=5,TUNE=HOST)-
           /pointer_size=64=argv/rtti/warn=(disable=(dollarid))
LINK = LINK
LINKFLAGS = /sysexe/notraceback
OBJECTS = RECALL_INPUT.OBJ

!
! One rule to rule them all
!
RECALL_INPUT.EXE : $(OBJECTS)
        $(LINK)/EXECUTABLE=$(MMS$TARGET) $(LINKFLAGS) $(MMS$SOURCE_LIST)

.CXX.OBJ
        $(CXX) $(MMS$SOURCE) $(CXXFLAGS)

Then you need to install it with executive-mode privileges. BUT, if you did all of that, you could override the behavior of log*out to write out the recall buffer, change your login script to call this monstrosity of a program, and voila, your command history (well, about 50 commands worth at least) is saved across sessions.

It worked very well for me (and some others at my company), but I take no responsibility for its behavior on your systems :). Enjoy!

Thanks,
Stephen Tyree