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- From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
- Subject: Re: writing lexical functions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.085555.5895@ais.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 08:55:55 GMT
- References: <Bz3KEC.Es2@wm.estec.esa.nl> <12DEC199200264446@spades.aces.com>
- Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
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- In article <12DEC199200264446@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
- > In article <Bz3KEC.Es2@wm.estec.esa.nl>, hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl writes...
- > #
- > #Can anyone out there tell me if it is possible to write my own lexical
- > #functions, and how?
- >
- > The answer to your implied question is NO, you cannot normally
- > write your own lexical functions into DCL.
- >
- > There are a few workarounds:
- > 1. Work for Digital on the DCL team and put it in
- > 2. Grease the palm of someone in category 1
- > 3. Run an image which sets a symbol (lib$set_symbol)
- > or otherwise returns the information you seek.
-
- Ehud leaves out
-
- 4. Get a copy of the source to DCL and hack it in
- yourself.
-
- This is an EXPEN$IVE solution and DEC keeps changing the exact
- requirements for doing this legally.
-
- Requests for this come up pretty often; but until and unless DEC puts
- some kind of new functionality into VMS X.0, workaround #3 is usually
- the best one.
-
- Bruce C. Wright
-