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From: hydrovax@nmtsun.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: External definitions for SYS$, RTL$ etc...
Message-ID: <1220@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 88 19:11:00 GMT
References: <8801091111.AA04662@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: NMT Hydrology program
Lines: 27
Summary: My solution (a kludge at best...)

In article <8801091111.AA04662@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET writes:
> The lack of COMPLETE definitions of system facilities and structures for
> the non-MACRO, non-BLISS programmer really bugs me, too.  It is possible
> to find all the definitions in the proper .MLB and .REQ files, but I've
> had to do the translations (mostly to C) myself.

My solution:

   find the place where the symbol is defined.  Extract that module from
the relevant library.  Go into TPU and do a replace on $EQU with a
# define.  This doesn't catch all of the stuff.

   I found that there are some .h files that have bit structures defined
for the relevant field, so I think that SDL might already do that for
you. ?????

   Another solution:  Buy the Wollon gang's TCP/IP.  They give you a whole
directory of .h files that were generated with a program that they
wrote.  Maybe we could get them to distribute it, if DEC doesn't come
up with a solution.  The only drawback is that it won't work with other
languages (but who uses RPG for system programming anyway??? :-D).

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