Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!nrcvax!kvc From: kvc@nrcvax.UUCP (Kevin Carosso) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: CTL$GB_MSGMASK Process Message Mask (was CLI$DCL_PARSE...) Message-ID: <1512@nrcvax.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 18:42:33 GMT References: <8806151302.AA18495@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Reply-To: kvc@minnie.UUCP (Kevin Carosso) Organization: Network Research Corp. Oxnard, CA Lines: 43 In article <8806151302.AA18495@mitre-bedford.ARPA> mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff) writes: >Recently I posted a message about surpressing the error output from >CLI$DCL_PARSE. I mentioned that if a SET MESS/NOFAC/NO... command is >issued before running the program, the error output does not display. > >I did get a response from Mike Marques; he suggested using >LIB$ESTABLISH to set up a condition handler that does nothing. A good >idea in theory, but the manual recommends not using this service in >high level languages (like BASIC) that already have condition handlers >set up. I am using BASIC (stop laughing), and being curious, I tried >it out. My results were something less than successful. A condition >handler is overkill for my application anyway. > >Thanks in advance for any help. For something like the CLI$ routines which signal their errors rather than returning a status, the conditional handler really is the only way to go. The caveat about using LIB$ESTABLISH from a high level language such as BASIC only applies to *how* you set up the handler, not whether you can have one. In Pascal, BASIC, PL/I, or Ada you want to use the built-in language facilities for establishing the handler and not call LIB$ESTABLISH directly. The handler you actually establish is no different in the high-level language (well, Ada may be a little different). In the case of the CLI$ routines, things are really easy since VMS provides some conditional handlers for your use. One of these, LIB$SIG_TO_RET, "converts any signalled condition value to a value returned as a function. The signaled condition is returned to the caller of the user procedure that established the handler that is calling LIB$SIG_TO_RET. This routine may be established as or called from a condition handler." In Pascal you would need to declare the routine LIB$SIG_TO_RET as [ASYNCHRONOUS, UNBOUND] and then simply use: Establish (LIB$SIG_TO_RET); in any procedures that want to catch CLI$ signals and convert them into return values. BASIC will probably be very similar. /Kevin Carosso kvc@nrc.com Network Research Co. kvc@ymir.bitnet kvc@nrcvax.uucp