[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-06-27, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 6/27/2022 1:18 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-06-24, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> OpenVMS supports this feature via the SET FILE/ALIAS command.
>>>
>>> I'm sure the SET FILE /ALIAS=GENERATE=UUID {ODS-5 path} command can be added.
>>>
>>> Then you can enter the generated UUID into the image file path argument.
>>>
>>> We can undoubtedly work logical names into this, but you'll have to
>>> re-enter the logical name at boot.
>>>
>>
>> What we _really_ need are logical names whose name (not contents)
>> can be specified as a UTF-8 character sequence... :-)
>>
>
> Enlighten me.  I cannot think of one reason why ...
>

You Americans really don't do subtle humour do you ? :-)

Simon.

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