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From: JSOTTILE@LOYVAX.BITNET
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Subject: Calling Edt From a Program and returning...
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 23:02:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 23:02:00 1987
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Recently, a user came up to me and asked me "How can I EDIT a file from
my program and return back to my program where it left off."  Being
narrow minded, I said "Call LIB$SPAWN (etc etc)."

That was a fine answer for her, but not for me.  I needed to do the call
myself and i refused to do a lib$spawn.  There had to be a better way.  Well,
there is.  Now, all you Vax Guru folks out there relax and go on to the next
message.

(Boy it got quiet in here).  Ok, there is a callable routine that allows you
to do it.  Here's the call

EDT$EDIT (infile [,outfile] [,comfile] [,joufile] [,options] [,fileio]
          [,workio] [,xlate])

infile, outfile, comfile, joufile must be passed by descriptor
options is a mask passed by reference
fileio, workio, and xlate are vectors (reference to a procedure)

I can't seem to find out what ALL of the parameters are, but one can figure
out most of them.



- John Sottile
Student Systems Programmer
Loyola College in Maryland
(JSOTTILE@LOYVAX.BITNET)