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From: dross@cs.utexas.edu (Daniel L. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.os.eunice,comp.os.misc
Subject: VMS DCL .COM ==> UN*X shell script translator?
Keywords: VMS DCL UNIX shell
Message-ID: <392@dagora.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 89 04:21:37 GMT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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A colleague without news access needs some help porting VAX/VMS DCL command
files to a UN*X system.  He has obtained a "DCL interpreter" called VCL
which isn't satisfactory for a variety of reasons (listed below, in his
message to me).  A DCL .COM file to UN*X shell script translator would
be ideal, if such a thing exists...does anyone know?  Note that this is
sort of the inverse of the problem DEC/Shell solves, as my friend wishes
to run DCL files on a UN*X system.  Thanks; please reply to the address
    broughtn@atlantis.ees.anl.gov
If that address doesn't work or if you post, I'll forward them to him.

From broughtn@atlantis.ees.anl.gov Fri Mar 31 16:19:11 1989
>VCL interprets DCL commands from the terminal or .COM files.
>The problem is that some of the programs that we run spawn processes to run
>.COM files or other VMS commands (e.g., edit/tpu, submit, ...).  Specifically,
>I can't say what is lacking, except that I don't think that it would allow
>the commands to be spawned dynamically in this fashion.  Probably we would
>want to use the C shell, but the Bourne might be required.  What is wanted is
>a system that would generate UNIX shell scripts from the DCL files...maybe
>this sort of thing isn't possible--who knows, eh?

Thanks for any help.

Dan Ross	 dross@cs.utexas.edu