At 12:51 PM -0500 12/9/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Perhaps there was an old version of MMS that needed such spoon
>feeding?
That would be my guess as well. As you point out, if it's a buffer
length issue, DCL only comes into the picture indirectly, in the
cases where a long macro is expanded on the command line.
> Isn't it the case that you always use MMK?
Usually, but not always. I'm in the middle of torturing the
bleadperl version of vms/descrip_mms.template into submission and
I've been testing with both MMK and MMS. On the commercial
production system I'm associated with we haven't sprung for the
umpteen thousand dollar price tag of a DECset license, so there I
only use MMK.
With recent versions of MMK and MMS, I can't see a problem with
continuation lines. The example below illustrates the ability of
both MMS and MMK to create a macro far too long for DCL:
create descrip.mms
bar = aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa \
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb \
cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc \
dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd \
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee \
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff \
gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg \
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh \
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii \
jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj \
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk \
llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
foo :
write sys$output "$(bar)"
^Z
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