[Info-vax] RECALL command

[Jim]

On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 1:47:37 PM UTC-4, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 22/06/2023 18:35, Chris Townley wrote: 
> > Just being playing with a routine to squirrel away the command buffer on 
> > logout, which be quite useful after a system maintenance session. 
> > 
> > However when run in a command procedure, it just doesn't produce anything. 
> > 
> > Is this normal? 
> > 
> > BTW on E9.2-1 
> >
> Just checked on AXP V8.4-2L1 and that is the same. Using the /output 
> qualifier. 
> 
> I could understand it not being available with other than the output 
> qualifier, or perhaps /ERASE, but seems a bit off! 
> 
> -- 
> Chris

RECALL demands that the caller be at procedure depth 0 (the DCL prompt).
Execution within a command procedure has a procedure depth of 1 (or
more if a command procedure call another, etc). See

$ write sys$output f$environment("depth")