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From: XPMAINT@TAMVENUS.BITNET (Shane Davis -- CSC XPrint Programmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Use of RMS from VAX C
Message-ID: <8802150715.AA23998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 88 23:06:00 GMT
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Hello again...

I'm trying to use the RMS services $PARSE and $SEARCH to process wildcard file
specifications. However, the VAX C compiler (V2.3) flags an error "Invalid
right operand of an &= operator" at this statement:

file_fab.fab$l_nam=&file_nam;

Here is the meat of the program up to this point:

#include <rms>
struct FAB file_fab;
struct NAM file_nam;
  .
  .
  .
main()
  {
    .
    .
    .
    /* (before any other initialization of RMS blocks...) */
    file_fab=cc$rms_fab;
    file_nam=cc$rms_nam;
    .
    .
    .
    file_fab.fab$l_nam=&file_nam;
    /* (other intializations of RMS blocks) */
    .
    .
    .
  }

These declarations and initializations are done in accordance with the RMS
Manual and in this case are done exactly like the Guide to Programming in
VAX C says. I was doing it my own way without any "cc$rms_fab" business and
came up with the same error I get now when I'm doing things exactly by the book.

Please help me...if I can't get this one straightened out, I'll have to write
yet another 5-liner in MACRO to link with my C program in order to get around
yet another fluke of VAX C...

Operating system version is V4.6.

Regards,

--Shane Davis
  Programming Assistant
  Texas A&M Univ. Computing Svcs. Ctr. Software Systems Group

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