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From: mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Registering DCL commands?
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Date: 21 Jan 88 17:01:09 GMT
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>Back in some recent VAX SIG Symposium tape, someone submitted a utility
>named LOCK, and claimed that they had registered the command with DEC.
>They further claimed that such registration would prevent name conflicts
>with other registered commands (including all DCL commands created by DEC).
>
>I have been unable to reach the author (whose name I forget just right now--
>sorry).  Has anyone out there heard of such a thing as registering DCL
>commands?  Do you know what department at DEC would be in charge of this
>kind of thing, and how to contact them?
>
>Please reply directly to me, since I doubt this is a burning issue to most
>of the readership.  (If anyone wants to receive this info, send me a note
>and I will forward to you whatever I find out.)

The only thing I have ever read regarding registering anything with
Digital was in the "VAX/VMS Developer's Guide to VMSINSTAL" (Order
number AA-HB12A-TE, $85.00 US, about 50 pages).  The regsitration
information deals with registering *facility codes*:

     "To avoid image name conflicts, you *must* register the facility
     code for each product with the DIGITAL VMS Product Registrar."
     (p. 2-1)

I think the intent here is so that if you are planning on developing a
(third-party) layered product, you would want to register your facitlity
code with DEC so they don't develop a product with the same facility
code.

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