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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: long, long, really long DCL commands
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:48:50 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1ho3p2INNnna@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1992Dec28.172453.24421@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec28.172453.24421@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>, george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (George Nassas) writes:
- =Hi all! Happy holidays!
- =
- =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.
- =
- =At first I thought that I could get really long lines by going:
- =
- = $ 256 chars -
- = 256 chars - etc...
- =
- =but no way. What gives? I've stumped all my local experts.
-
- How about giving us a demonstration of what doesn't work?
-
- For example, since:
- $ X:=
- $ X[0,16]=%x0A0D
- $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT -
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "**********************************************"
-
- works, it's not obvious what problem you might be having.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-