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From: narayan@tandem.UUCP (Narayan Mohanram)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Has anyone written their own CLI?
Message-ID: <360@tandem.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 17:55:56 GMT
References: <191@dogie.edu> <23809@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: narayan@tandem.UUCP (Narayan Mohanram)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Cupertino, CA - TND
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In article <23809@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> leres@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Leres) writes:
>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

Writing your own CLI gives you the advantage of running some
code in the Supervisor mode, and being able to do Callbacks to
it. DCL may not provide all you are looking for. This way you
can have any type of call-back you desire, not those limited by DCL
(I admit I do not know much about the command defenition utility). 


Narayan Mohanram

THE SUPREME DALEK