dclcomplete for Alpha and Itanium ?

[labadie_1]

On Vax there was a Dclcomplete tool which was really handy: it did
- verb completion, so
$ ana + Tab gave analyze
- option completion
$ ana/ + tab showed all the possible options for analyze (not the options appearing in the help, but all the options that a VERB analyze would show in a verb.cld)
- file completion
$ dir log + tab would show login.com if you have a login.com in this directory
- extension completion
$ dir login. +tab would show login.com, or login.com and login.old if you had 2 files login.*

I know that it is far from trivial to write such a tool for Alpha. I was wondering if some people had tried to do so for Itanium.

Thanks for any hint.

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Gerard,

DCLCOMPLETE appeared on the freeware CD 3.0, was originally written by Don Stokes, and later maintained (enhanced) by Ramon Curiel. You can find the .ZIP file at http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?DCLCOMPLETE.
I doubt that it can be easily ported to Itanium, because as the original author states "it uses a rather ghastly hack to intercept DCL's I/O calls". AFAIK, it also required CMKRNL.
Maybe someday, I might give it a try. But given my current workload, do not expect any results soon.

Greetz,

Kris

[Ian Miller.]

The authors home page http://www.daedalus.co.nz/~don/index.html

I had a quick look and it appears definately non-trivial to port this classic piece of 10 year old MACRO32 - might be fun though :-)

[Ian Miller.]

I also noticied
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_3484.html

[Jan van den Ende]

Well,

maybe my wishes are even more modest.

I still have a Vax version of VERB, but as I hardly ever touch a Vax anymore, its usability has dwindled.
You seem to imply the existence of VERB for Alpha. I somehow never got to really searching for it, but you reminded me agian of its usefullness.

Anybody know where to get it?


TIA


Cheers


Have one on me


Jan

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Jan,

Verb for Alpha is at http://vms.tuwien.ac.at/goodies/verb-2_2/

Greetz,

Kris

[labadie_1]

I have used it on Alpha.

It is on the freeware too

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware50/verb/

[labadie_1]

dclcomplete is on the freeware too

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware40/dclcomplete/

[labadie_1]

As this completion is available on Linux and NT, may be if customers ask for it (loudly) HP will do it ?

:-)

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Gerard,


As this completion is available on Linux and NT, may be if customers ask for it (loudly) HP will do it ?


Next week I'm going to attend HP Dutch World. If I run into Guy Peleg, I'll ask him. Guy is the one from engineering doing DCL now.

Greetz,

Kris