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From: MADISON@CICGJ.RPI.EDU (Matt Madison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Re: VMS global symbols
Message-ID: <880412.11398@CICGJ.RPI.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 88 14:16:57 GMT
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in article <14274@hc.dspo.gov>, whitfill@hc.dspo.gov (Jim Whitfill) says:

>in article <1181@csun.UUCP>, mst@csun.UUCP (Mike Temkin) says:
[...]
>> I see no difference between typing 'RUN PROGRAM' and setting a global
>> symbol like 'PRG :== RUN PROGRAM 'P1 'P2' then typing 'PRG param1 param2'.
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
>What you need is a command file, PROGRAM_RUN.COM, that contains:
>
>$ RUN PROGRAM 'P1' 'P2'
>
>Then define PGM :== @PROGRAM_RUN

No, no.  You need not do anything so complicated.  Simply define your
"foreign command" as:

    $ PRG :== $dev:[dir]PROGRAM

Where "dev" and "dir" are the device and directory where the executable
is located.  This is really basic RTFM DCL stuff.

Matt Madison   madison@cicgj.rpi.edu
Systems Programmer, Center for Interactive Computer Graphics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute