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Article #41To users of VMS DCL Menu
From: Harry Flowers
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 23:59
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 23:59
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Some notes for those using my VMS DCL Menu system: 1) There's a bug introduced in 2.3 that continued in 3.0. Basically, the prompt string keeps growing every time you get the menu screen until you get an error that loops until you break out. It's fixed in V3.1, which I just posted to vmsnet.sources, so it should be showing up there within a couple of weeks. I think I lost some of my remaining hair tracking this one down, though the fix is simple. Although I use my menu daily, I hadn't stayed in it through enough options to run into the problem before Jasper Rees reported it to me this week. 2) If you make much use of DCL symbols, you'll probably want/need to set the SYSGEN parameter CLISYMTBL to its maximum value of 500. You'll have to get your system manager to do this (if he hasn't already). 3) Sometime within the next few months when I get a few days to work on it, I'm planning on doing some major work on it. One of the things will be to make it easy to upgrade in the future (I keep thinking "this is the last version, anyway"). -- Harry Flowers Internet: FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1.MEMST.EDU Memphis State University & Bitnet: FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!ukma!memstvx1!flowers From: flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers) Newsgroups: vmsnet.sources.d Subject: To users of VMS DCL Menu Message-ID: <1992Aug5.175942.2962@memstvx1.memst.edu> Date: 5 Aug 92 23:59:42 GMT Organization: Memphis State University Lines: 22