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From: dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: making VMS better... filelist specification generalization
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Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 18:27:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 12 18:27:10 1986
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In article <1784@ncoast.UUCP> btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) writes:
>It just occurred to me today that DEC could make VMS friendlier by simply
>generalizing their filespec for a list of files, i.e.:
>
>	filespec1,filespec2,...	including wildcards, etc.
>
>to include "@filespec", where filepec would be the spec of a file that has
>a list of filespecs one to a line:
>
>	@filespec, where filespec contains:
>
>		filespec1, filespec2, filespec3   (or!)
>
>		filespec1
>		filespec2
>		... (possibly even @filespec...)

Hold it!  I Know that you can do this under RSX.  I remember having done this
under VMS.  It may be that I did it with an incompatibility mode image, but
I do remember it.

The RSX routines to do this are in PIPUTL.OLB on the RSX distributions, and
have been described in the Multi-Tasker some years back, although the best
documentation is the utility source kit.


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-David B. (Ben) Burch
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