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From: hydrovax@nmtsun.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: ACCDEF vs ACRDEF
Keywords: Help
Message-ID: <1266@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 88 04:39:52 GMT
Organization: NMT Hydrology program
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Greetings,
  time for a new discussion on this group.  I'm sure this one
gets talked about every so often.  If so, would some kind sole
send me summaries of the previous discussions so we can use the
bandwidth to discuss more pressing issues.

  I am in the process of writing an accounting utility that reads
ACCOUNTING records from an accounting file that was written by VMS
Version 4.4.  I have found the supplemental information in the
accounting utility documentation very useful.  However, I'm a bit
fuzzy on a few points.

    First, since I'm writing this utility in 'C', I'd like to be
able to use the pre-defined structures that DEC gives you as part of
the distribution.  However, I find that there is no ACRDEF.H,
which is the name that SHOULD be there, according to the appendix
in the accounting utility manual.  There is a ACCDEF.H that looks
a little bit like the correct data structures, but not quite.
Upon close inspection, I found that the data structures had the
same fields (sort of), but they were in a different order, in addition
to some other basic differences.

   Second, I found $ACRDEF in the SYS$LIBRARY:STARLET.MLB (I think, or
maybe it was LIB.)  Does anybody have a way of converting this into
'C' structure definitions?  I have asked this question before on the
SDL discussion, but haven't gotten an answer yet.

   Finally, I get to my question : What is ACCDEF used for, and why did
I get this module with my 'C' compiler (version 2.2 on VMS 4.4) instead
of ACRDEF.  Is there some accounting file reading facility that I have
overlooked in my search through the Orange binders?  Or do I have
to hack out my own ACRDEF.H file, so I can read the raw data.


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