topic Environment variable. in Operating System - OpenVMS

Environment variable.

Mutturaj — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:24:49 GMT

Hello to forum,

We are running out executable on BASH cell.
Now I need to debug my program using the OPEN VMS debugger! For that I need to pass the certain environment variable like SHM, SCEDIR, LOGDIR. Since I cant start the debugger from the BASH cell! How do I make available of these variables to my program thru the debugger?

Thanking in advance.

Mutturaj

Re: Environment variable.

Hein van den Heuvel — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:56:32 GMT

Just DCL during debugging and then back to bah when ready for that?
I was tempted to ask 'What's the point in using a fancy shell if you do not know how to set environment variables', but I will not.

Hein.

Re: Environment variable.

Bojan Nemec — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:57:15 GMT

Mutturaj,

If you read environment variables with getenv(), I will try with DCL commands to define symbols:

$ SHM=""
$ SCEDIR=""
$ LOGDIR=""

or with logical names :

$ DEFINE SHM
$ DEFINE SCEDIR
$ DEFINE LOGDIR

This because the native VMS getenv() try to mimic the UNIX getenv () so that it first try to retrive the symbol and then the logical name.

Bojan