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From: leres@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Has anyone written their own CLI?
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Date: 29 Apr 88 00:16:34 GMT
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Michael Dorl (dorl@vms.macc.wisc.edu) writes:

> I'd like to talk to anyone who has written their own command language
> interpreter for VMS.  Better yet, I'd like to see an example.  What
> I need to do is to provide a highly efficient platform to restrict
> certain users to a subset of available programs and commands so I
> need a CLI that accepts and parses user commands, loads the required
> programs, and provides whatever interfaces the VMS CLI would otherwise
> provide.

Why not just use DCL? Armed with the verb program that has been posted
several times and the command definition utility that comes with VMS,
it should be very easy to write a .cld file that does exactly what you
want and is "safe."

		Craig