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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!pulp.cs.laurentian.ca!george
  3. From: george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (George Nassas)
  4. Subject: Re: long, long, really long DCL commands
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec28.215058.1366@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
  6. Keywords: dcl
  7. Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
  8. References: <1992Dec28.172453.24421@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
  9. Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:50:58 GMT
  10. Lines: 37
  11.  
  12. In <1992Dec28.172453.24421@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca> george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (George Nassas) writes:
  13.  
  14. >At first I thought that I could get really long lines by going:
  15. ...
  16. >but no way. What gives? I've stumped all my local experts.
  17.  
  18. Yikes! I was wrong, it does work! If you try a line like:
  19.  
  20.     $ type/out=x.x -
  21.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  22.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  23.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  24.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  25.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  26.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  27.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  28.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  29.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  30.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  31.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  32.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  33.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  34.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,-
  35.     nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis,nla0:make16.lis
  36.  
  37. (that's 15 lines of 64 plus the type command) DCL will gladly accept
  38. it. Or at least the VAX that I'm using right now takes it.
  39.  
  40. However, when I tried the same example on another VAX that I don't
  41. happen to have access to right now, DCL barfed after 256 characters no
  42. matter what. It was just an plain old 6220 or 6320 with VMS 5.4. Is
  43. maximum line length a selectable thing? I'm stumped, not to mention
  44. embarrased.
  45.  
  46. Sorry to bother the net on a false alarm.
  47.  
  48. - George
  49.