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- From: george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (George Nassas)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: long, long, really long DCL commands
- Keywords: dcl
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.172453.24421@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:24:53 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
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- Hi all! Happy holidays!
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- The manual tells me that DCL will gladly accept commands of 1024
- characters although each individual line cannot go longer than 256
- characters. Can anyone fill me in on how this works? I read all over
- the FM for an example but couldn't find one.
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- At first I thought that I could get really long lines by going:
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- $ 256 chars -
- 256 chars - etc...
-
- but no way. What gives? I've stumped all my local experts.
-
- Please bounce a reply to my address as well as the net as I'm
- sometimes away for a week or two at a time. Thanks in advance.
-
- - George Nassas
-