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- From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
- Subject: Re: writing lexical functions
- Message-ID: <17DEC199211540418@spades.aces.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 18:54:00 GMT
- References: <Bz3KEC.Es2@wm.estec.esa.nl> <12DEC199200264446@spades.aces.com> <1992Dec13.020257.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au> <BzCAvM.9o9@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
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- Organization: ACES Consulting Inc.
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- In article <BzCAvM.9o9@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>, silverm@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Jeff Silverman) writes...
- # I, for one, would like a complete time arithmetic package. Yes,
- #I know I can run a program, use the $ASCTIM and $BINTIM system services and
- #the LIB$ADDX and LIB$SUBX calls to do the time arithmetic. But, doing all
- #that takes an image activation, plus, I gotta get the symbols out of DCL and
- #put the answer back into a symbol in DCL... a mess.
-
- Would be nice...
-
- # I would like a silo of the last few (20? 30?) error messages, including
- #the 32 bit error codes.
-
- I'd say the last 3-4 would be cool, but that's not there either. This would
- require a patch to $exit or $putmsg.
-
- # I would like a lexical function which returns the CPU type (Alpha, or
- #VAX).
-
- if f$getsyi("HOW_MODEL") .gt. 1023 then ALPHA else VAX
-
- #
- # Jeff Silverman, Boeing
- #
- #>--
- #>Ehud Gavron (EG76)
- #>gavron@vesta.sunquest.com
-
- Ehud
-
- --
- Ehud Gavron (EG76)
- gavron@vesta.sunquest.com
- Did I do an INCORRECT THING??
-