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From: kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Re:  External definitions for SYS$, RTL$ etc...
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Date: 18 Jan 88 16:21:00 GMT
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>>I think that the trouble is that SDL, which is used to create the definitions
>>for MACRO and BLISS, has never been completely extended to support other
>>languages.
>        Actually, SDL is used to generate the Fortran and Basic
>definitions. I guess I could agree that there not 'completely'
>integrated, but I don't think it's SDL's fault.. If you ever
>do an SDL/NOPARSE/DUMP on an SDL module (grab one out of

  Awright, guys, I give up. What's SDL? It's not in the Master Directory, and 
it's not in my DEC Dictionary. The system responds to '$ SDL' with '_File:',
and there's an SDLNPARSE.EXE in SYS$SYSTEM, but no help that I can find.
Curiosity is going to kill this cat :-).

/kenw