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From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DCL query -- f$parse
Message-ID: <105rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 15 Apr 88 16:54:55 GMT
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To the best of my knowlege, this can't be done.  If you are calling sys$parse
and sys$search, they store special information in the FAB which deals with
search path logicals.  When you call the f$parse lexical, it throws this
information away and all f$search has to go on is the first translation.
You have to make the parse and search use the same FAB block, and I think
this cannot be done from DCL.  On the other hand, if you can get away without
calling f$parse and only call f$search, f$search calls sys$parse first anyway
and uses the same FAB for its sys$search calls.   Unfortunately, this makes
it impossible to provide filename defaults as f$parse allows you to do.

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