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From: NED@YMIR.BITNET (Ned Freed)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Registering DCL commands?
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Date: 25 Jan 88 21:58:00 GMT
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Digital maintains a registry for VMS products. This registry can be used
by third party developers as well as developers within Digital. When you
register a product, you specify five things:

(1) The facility code you use, if any. Digital will assign you a unique
    facility number to go with your facility code. For example, PMDF uses
    the code PMDF, so error symbols have the form PMDF$_blah, and PMDF's
    facility number is 668.

(2) The prefix used for your system logical names. Continuing the example,
    the preffix for PMDF is PMDF, so all PMDF logicals have the form PMDF_blah.

(3) System process names.

(4) System mailbox names.

(5) Shareable images.

I wish the registry included things like DCL command names, names of
images on SYS$SYSTEM (like print symbionts), and perhaps even lock IDs.

Anyway, last I heard the person to contact to register a product is:

     Pamela R. Axtell
     VMS Product Registrar
     SSG/SQM Software Quality Group
     110 Spit Brook Road
     Nashua, NH 03062-2698
     (603) 881-1362

I encourage all developers, even those who develop public domain software,
to register their products in this fashion. It sure helps eliminate conflicts.
To date I have registered three products -- DELIVER, MATHLIB, and PMDF, and
all has gone smoothly with them.

                                Ned Freed (ned@ymir.bitnet)

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