[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <t87tg0$h5a$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2022-06-11, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>>
>> COBOL is barely a read-only language for me but I was able to see that this
>> is doable if one DOESN'T disregard system call parameters that one does NOT
>> understand.
>>
>
>Using COBOL to interface to VMS has been a serious eye-opener for me in
>reading this thread. I guess no-one is going to be doing even a bare metal 
>LED blinker in COBOL any time soon... :-)

Bare metal COBOL.  Thankfully, I haven't poured the first beer yet or I'd have
wasted a good ale, and I'd be cleaning it up from the screen and keyboard.


>> Two weeks wasted on this with a reticent programmer.  Now, I can get back to
>> an sshfs problem.  
>>
>
>sshfs on VMS ? Is that using sshfs as a client or as a server on VMS ?

It's OBVIOUS you haven't tried it.  sshfs from linux or OSX to VMS works well.
I use it to move files to and from quite often.  It works with TCPIP Services 
ssh althought you need to supply some -o parameters to dumb it down.  Process
ssh for OpenVMS works too and the -o dumb-downs aren't needed.  My Mac and my
linux have a /mnt/VMS directory for the mount point and a simple script that
does the sshfs magic.  Public keys make it all easy-peasy.



>I am also curious which software you are using on VMS to support sshfs.

See above.

My sshfs is a problem between OSX and linux involving some data I want to use
for a web site.  I just haven't had the free time to dick-about with it.  Do
not assume, because I mentioned it here, that it had anything to do with VMS.

I'm now distracted again fixing the php in a plug-in I installed.  I need to
make an <svg>...</svg> handle doing a transform: rotate but the author of the
plug-in php really horked a simple implementation.

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