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From: mskucherawy@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Using CLI Routines from VAX Pascal
Keywords: CLI, VAX, Pascal
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Date: 4 Feb 90 17:50:48 GMT
References: <932@soleil.UUCP> <480@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>
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In article <480@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> nboogaar@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Martin v.d. Boogaard) writes:
>[preceeding text and some code omitted]
>         {The following constants define so-called condition values, as they
>          are returned by system routines. This enables the programmer to
>          adhere to the notational conventions used in the DEC manuals. Off
>          course, these constants may be changed in a new VMS release! On node
>          RUUNSC (HUTRUU51) the information below was found in the following
>          text libraries on directory SYS$LIBRARY:
>
>            FORSYSDEF.TLB, module $SSDEF ;
>            VAXCDEF.TLB,   module CLIMSGDEF.
>
>          Our VMS release is 5.1-1. Check your local files or system manager
>          to see if the constants in this module are up-to-date.}
>[constants and remaining code followed]

In my experience, these have not changed between VMS releases, so you
are fairly safe in assuming that they are upward-compatible.

=========================== Murray S. Kucherawy ============================
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