topic Symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT in Operating System - OpenVMS

Symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT

Robert Atkinson — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:00:22 GMT

Anyone know of a way to translate symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT, e.g. :-

$ !
$ TEST = "A TEST"
$ !
$ TYPE SYS$INPUT

THIS IS ''TEST' OK?

$ !

I'm outputting HTML, but have embedded symbols in it that I have to keep switching back into DCL for.

Cheers, Rob.

Re: Symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT

Marc Van den Broeck — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:08:35 GMT

Rob,

write to a file in stead of using type sys$input.

e.g.
$write some_open_file "This is 'TEST' OK?"
will translate the symbol test

or use
$write sys$output "This is 'TEST' OK?"

to write directly to output.

Rgds
Marc

Re: Symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT

Hein van den Heuvel — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:12:01 GMT

Sorry, no can do.

Hein.

Re: Symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT

Uwe Zessin — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:18:54 GMT

It is because TYPE is directly reading the data from the file that makes up the command procedure - those records are not pre-processed by DCL.

Re: Symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT

Robert Atkinson — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:27:29 GMT

Ok, thanks guys. I thought that would be the case.

Rob.