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From: jwagner@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Variable dump utilities?
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Date: 1 Feb 91 21:26:33 GMT
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In article <21658@oolong.la.locus.com>, richg@locus.com (Rich Greenberg) writes:
|> In article <91028.231227DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu> DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
|> >This seems like a simple thing, but I was wondering if there are any utilities
|> >out there that will provide a complete memory dump of all variables.  I know
|> 
|> There are some public domain programs that will do this.  I don't have any
|> but I remember some discussion on VMSHARE so If I were looking for such,
|> I would look at MEMO REXX on VMSHARE.  You can write it yourself.  You need
|> an assembly routine that does EXECCOMM calls, and just asks for the "next"
|> variable until there are no more.  The variables will be fed to you in
|> random order, so if you want to sort them, that is up to you.
|> You could also check with Dave Gomberg at UCSF in San Francisco.  I
|> don't have an internet address for him and I would rather not post his phone
|> without his ok.
|>                      Rich
|> p.s. The above is for Rexx on VM/CMS.  I can't speak for other platforms.

VM sites with PIPEs can get a list of the current variables (sorted in 
alphabetical order) with the following:

    address command 'PIPE rexxvars | drop 1 |' ,
       'pad 4|spec 3-* 1|join 1 /=/|sort|console'

You may want to change the destination.  It can go by on the console fairly
quickly.

    John