topic Re: Line Break in edit or lse in Operating System - OpenVMS

Line Break in edit or lse

YE LIU_1 — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:27:26 GMT

Dear VMS Users,

This is a newpie question again:

In lse or edit, when I try to write a lone line, what is the line break I can use? In unix, I can use "\", what is the counterpart of VMS world?

Thanks,

YE LIU

Re: Line Break in edit or lse

John Reagan — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:38:53 GMT

LSE will let you type long lines, just keep typing.

Do you mean how wide the screen is?

You can do

$ set term/wid=132

prior to invoking LSE

or inside of LSE you can do things like

set screen wid=200

(hit the DO key to get the LSE command prompt).

Re: Line Break in edit or lse

Steven Schweda — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:41:13 GMT

One lone (long?) line of what? Fortran? C?
DCL?

In a DCL command procedure, use "-" to
continue a line:

alp $ type dash.com
$ write -
sys$output -
f$getsyi( -
"version")
alp $ @ dash.com
V7.3-2
alp $

> In unix, I can use "\" [...]

You mean in a shell script? UNIX is a pretty
broad thing, and "\" is not accepted
everywhere therein.

Re: Line Break in edit or lse

YE LIU_1 — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:43:42 GMT

It is for perforce client setup file: I need to specify the directory of perforce sever which I want to synchronize.

Re: Line Break in edit or lse

Steven Schweda — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:54:25 GMT

> It is for perforce client setup file: [...]

So, what are the rules for a "perforce client
setup file". Perhaps it expects "\". (I
certainly don't know.)

http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technical.html

???