Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!VAKK.UWASA.FI!HANNU From: HANNU@VAKK.UWASA.FI (Hannu Hirvonen) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Making qualifiers Message-ID: <8712180251.AA20054@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 18 Dec 87 03:15:17 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 26 I'n not exactly sure what you mean by 'using qualifiers with command procedures' but if your intention is to define a symbol to invoke a command procedure and use qualifiers on this foreign command, here is what I have used on occasion: $ my_command :== @disk:[my_dir]my_procedure """ Now when I use 'my_command' the following way: $ my_command /qualifier1 /qualifier2 arg1 arg2 the symbols get these values: P1 = "/QUALIFIER1" P2 = "/QUALIFIER2" P3 = "ARG1" P4 = "ARG2" (Note that also the 'qualifiers' count towards the maximum of 8 command line arguments.) Hannu Hirvonen System Manager Computer Centre, University of Vaasa Vaasa, Finland