topic Re: Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX in Operating System - OpenVMS

Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX

da1nonly1 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:23:29 GMT

Hi,

I have a problem, that if I try invoking the EDIT/FDL utility by:
$ edit/fdl my_index

I get this message:
%DCL-W-IVQUAL, unrecognized qualifier - check validity, spelling, and placement
\FDL\

What can be the reason for that?

Re: Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX

Duncan Morris — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:28:23 GMT

Hi,

check that the symbol EDIT has not been redefined at your location:

eg

$ sh sym/gl e*
ED*IT == "EDIT/EDT"
EPCCDFD == "$ora_otrace:epccdfd"
EXP == "$ORA_SYSTEM:exp"

$ edit/fdl
%DCL-W-IVQUAL, unrecognized qualifier - check validity, spelling, and placement
\FDL\
$

Regards,

Duncan

Re: Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX

labadie_1 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:28:43 GMT

you have a symbol defined.

Do
$ sh symb ed*

You should see some definitions, like ed*it :== edit/edt or edit/tpu or ...

do zorro :== edit/fdl

zorro my_index should work

Re: Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX

Duncan Morris — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:30:25 GMT

Hi,

depending upon what has been defined, you may be able to extend the symbol you use to get to the FDL editor

using the environment in my previous message, you can use EDITT to override the global symbol

eg
$ editt/fdl
_File:

Duncan

Re: Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX

Karl Rohwedder — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:32:06 GMT

Perhaps you have a foreign command defined as EDIT, e.g.
$ EDIT:==EDIT/EDT
$ EDIT/FDL
%DCL-W-IVQUAL...

Check with SHO SYM EDIT.

regards Kalle

Re: Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX

da1nonly1 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:30:30 GMT

Thanks to all the replies, indeed if I do:
sho symb edit
I get:
ED*IT == "EDIT/TPU"

So I need to override it.

Re: Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX

Ian Miller. — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:50:22 GMT

to overide it either

EDITF/FDL

(using the fact that DCL ignores the characters in the verb name after the 4th) or define a new symbol

EDF :==EDIT/FDL

and use that.

Re: Can’t get EDIT/FDL to work on a VAX

Ruud Dijt — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:35:21 GMT

A forgotten parameter \ backslash
$edit\/fdl

should always work