home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU!CARL
- 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 23:52:37 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
- Lines: 32
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1ho405INNnna@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1992Dec28.172453.24421@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>,<1992Dec28.125931.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>
- Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu
-
- In article <1992Dec28.125931.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>, fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu writes:
- > DCL will accept ONLY 256 characters maximum on the command line,
- >whether that line is continued on multiple, shorter lines in the input
- >stream (terminal screen, command file) or not.
-
- Sorry, Ken, you're flat-out wrong, at least under VMS v5.4-2:
- $ X:=
- $ X[0,16]=%x0A0D
- $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT -
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "************************************************************************",X,-
- "**********************************************"
-
- works just fine.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 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.
-