[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

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On Mon, 2022-06-27 at 17:18 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-06-24, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> > On 2022-06-23 13:43:18 +0000, David Jones said:
> > 
> > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 11:59:22 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman
> > > wrote:
> > > > As for your process creation... The PQL stuff is one of those
> > > > areas 
> > > > where the argument is optional, where the defaults are fickle,
> > > > and 
> > > > where the PQL list really shouldn't be optional.
> > > 
> > > If they go to fix that, they should also drop the 63 character
> > > limit on 
> > > the image name argument.
> > 
> > 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... :-)

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