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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Chris_F_Chiesa
- From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Running LOGINOUT
- Message-ID: <73053@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 18:39:21 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <9301051432.AA20133@uu3.psi.com>
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- Is it possible that the "running LOGINOUT" issue, with the VMS docs very
- uncharacteristically tiptoeing around the subject, might be related to the
- thoroughly undocumented nature of my favorite Mystery System Service,
- SYS$CLI?
-
- I personally have been trying to find out anything useful about that ser-
- vice, which lies at the heart of "CLI callbacks," for YEARS, and have only
- received some difficult-(for me)-to-follow example code from a couple of
- scattered individuals. Concensus seems to be that "the interface was too
- complicated for DEC to want to document it," but that sounds like a cop-
- out to me; there are plenty of "complicated" interfaces in VMS already,
- fully documented and worth the effort of deciphering them... C'mon, DEC,
- tell me how to use SYS$CLI! :-)
-
- If, on the other hand, this has no bearing on the issue
- of running LOGINOUT, just consider it a separate thread unto itself! :-)
-
- Chris Chiesa
- Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
-