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- From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: re: Re: Running LOGINOUT [SYS$CLI]
- Message-ID: <9301071240.AA03083@uu3.psi.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 11:18:15 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- Is it possible that the "running LOGINOUT" issue, with the VMS docs
- very uncharacteristically tiptoeing around the subject, might be
- related to the thoroughly undocumented nature of my favorite Mystery
- System Service, SYS$CLI?
-
- Nope; not connection at all.
-
- I personally have been trying to find out anything useful about that
- service, 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$CLI! :-)
-
- SYS$CLI is a catch-all; essentially all it means is "CLI, please perform some
- service for me". A parameter specifies which service, and all the rest of the
- parameters vary depending on the service to be provided.
-
- The last time I checked, all the SYS$CLI services were accessible through
- library procedures; you'd gain nothing by using SYS$CLI directly.
-
- If, on the other hand, this has no bearing on the issue of running
- LOGINOUT, just consider it a separate thread unto itself! :-)
-
- -- Jerry
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