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Jan van den Ende
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Thanks again, Guy!


Hi all,

check this out:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/browse_thread/thread/ef1f0f81acab781a/5fc655d392b6e736#5fc655d392b6e736

I think it's great, and I DO second the backporting suggestion!

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan
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Uwe Zessin
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!

Amazing. I still remember the DECUS Europe session in 1988, wenn the SIRs (System Improvement Requests) were discussed with DEC.

One request was to enhance BACKUP with a CONTROL-T output. The VMS people were not very receptive to this idea, but wrote it down. Apparently, they were more eager to get us all to migrate to VAX/VMS V5.0 ;-)

Well, I was quite surprised to see the enhancement some time later (V5.2, together with the BACKUP 'rewrite', if I remember correctly).

And SEARCH got a similar improvement (V6.1?).
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Bojan Nemec
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!

Thats great,

No more procedures and programs that spit tons of output lines, only to see the progress. And probably defining a logical name is much faster than writing to a terminal or log file.

Bojan
Kris Clippeleyr
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!


Indeed a very useful improvement. I certainly gonna make use of it.

As Jan said: thank you very much, Guy.

Kris (aka Qkcl)
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Jan van den Ende
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!

Bojan,

it is not even a Logical name, it is a SYMBOL!
And read the example in some detail, and you will see WHY: a local symbol can be defined differently at EACH execution level, and ^T will show the values of ALL levels!

Proost.

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Jan
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Bojan Nemec
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!

Jan,

You are right (I read the link two hours before posting and early hours do strange things :-). Anyway its a great tool!

Bojan
Willem Grooters
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!

Good thing, both the devlopment itself AND the backport: Just show what you want to see.
I'vre read the thread in comp.os.vms (thanks Jan for attending us), I like the idea tha David Dachtera putted: make it a bitmask. Hopefully, Guy reads this forum as well since I would like to reserve a few bits for "custom use", which can be usefull in debugging (non-DCL) code (Show me some specified data on ^T)

Willem
Willem Grooters
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Guy Peleg
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!

I follow this thread as well.

Thank you all for your feedback.

Guy
John Yu_1
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!

Cool, something else to amaze the junior progs in my group ;-P
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Jan van den Ende
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Re: Thanks again, Guy!

Guy,

may I bring this thread under your attention as well?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=760599


TIA.

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan
Don't rust yours pelled jacker to fine doll missed aches.