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Re: Using CLI Routines from VAX Pascal

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From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 22:19
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Martin v.d. Boogaard (nboogaar@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl) writes:
>We finally found the values of CLI$_PRESENT etc.
>in a C include file (see comments below). Don't ask me why DEC didn't include
>info like this in its documentation on CLI and CDU.
>...
>          CLI$_COMMA           =  %X'3FD39';
>etc.

If you declare them as

VAR
   CLI$_Comma : (.External, Value.) unsigned;

you don't have to bother about hard-coded values. Not obvious,
but it seems to work.

What is missing though is a PASCAL$CLI_ROUTINES to supplement the
other nice environments shipped with V5.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Unix is a virus.
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