[HECnet] HECnet Area Request

[Gregg Levine]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

  I think he was talking about the typo, end_fo_file vs. end_of_file..

                          -Dave

On 02/20/2013 07:18 AM, Steve Davidson wrote:
That is just a simple check for end of file on read.   When it reaches
the EOF it closes the open file(s).   The early close statements include
error checking as well.   That allows debugging and ensures that the file
is closed before the attempted open.

BTW - This procedure gets around all the issues that Johnny's procedure
may be running into.   It does the right thing for all VMS systems.   It
also skips the current area so that local databases that are
cluster-based will not get clobbered.   This can be a problem if DECnet
is used for cluster communications.   It does not have to be regenerated
each time a database update occurs.   The data file it uses is
regenerated automatically by Johnny's procedures.   That's the reason for
the file in the first place.

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Dennis Boone
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:41
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] HECnet Area Request

Grab the file SG1::[DECNET]NU2.COM.   Ignore the errors.
It does depend   > on MIM being defined as 1.13.   This
procedure makes use of the file   >
MIM::DU4:[DECNET]NODENAMES.DAT.   Johnny creates this file for
this   > procedure.   I will not update your area nodes - that
is your   > responsibility.   It can be run interactively or
via batch.   It must be   > run from a priv'd account.

Steve,

Edumacation question.   There are a number of places in
NU2.COM where it uses the switch /end_fo_file= [sic]

Unless I'm missing something "meta" about how this thing
works, and assuming it _does_ work, that succeeds in spite of
the typo because...

...DCL only looks at the first 4?

De



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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

Hello!
Right! He wasn't talking about the audience of hungry big cats
surrounding your place that are eating things we don't want to know
about.

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