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

[Stephen Tyree]

On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 9:37:50 AM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 10/28/2021 3:27 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: 
> > Den 2021-10-28 kl. 05:54, skrev Hunter Goatley: 
> >> On 10/21/2021 11:41 AM, Stephen Tyree wrote: 
> >>> 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: 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Nice. I had written a VAX PROFESSIONAL article about a MACRO program I wrote to do that back in 1986. 
> >> 
> >> https://hunter.goatley.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php?post=242&action=edit 
> >> 
> >> I got out of the habit of using it and never modified it for use on Alpha and I64. 
> >> 
> >> Hunter 
> > 
> > That link needed a login...
> Click on the bottom link that says 
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> 
> ← Go to Hunter Goatley 
> 
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> -- Rob

Found the specific article - https://hunter.goatley.com/vax-professional-articles/vax-pro-02/

Pretty neat! Your program takes the approach of modifying the command buffer directly, which seems to have some benefits. I'd always imagined someone having done something similar to this program in the past, and I shouldn't be surprised there's an example from decades back. Thanks for sharing.