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>>Since this question has come up so often, would the TPU developers care to
>>comment if this functionality will make it into a future release of TPU
>>(perhaps as a GET_INFO statement)?  I for one am using the FILE_PARSE hack to
>>translate my (uppercase) logical names and it works for me, but a more
>>generalized logical name translation (and setting) procedure would be a very
>>useful enhancement.  It would sure make for more readable code too!
>>
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>>Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
>>EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430

Sure I will comment, its been a while since I posted anything....

We have been concentrating on getting customers bug reports fixed and in the
next release.  There were several rather complex problems included in that
list.  Some of these problems were over one and a half years old.  Since we
have been spending time on improving the quality, something had to give.  That
something was new functionality beyond V3.1.

The translate logical name built-in has been requested for some time now the
problem with impmenting it would be the providing the person writing TPU code
with the same functionality as $trnlnm (and then DEFINE).  If we don't provide
something very close to $trnlnm they the SPR requests/bugs will come in as soon
as it hits the street.

The built-in would have to have a context similar to the file_search built-in
where you could get the 'next' logical name.  We would have to provide a
similar functionality on ULTRIX for shell and environment variables (gee can
you tell this has been thought about).

The $trnlnm functionality can be done for most job tables by creating a
process and parsing what it returns but the define would  be limited because it
could not change the process name table.

Just to re-assure you, it is on the wish list we maintain.

Brian J. McCarthy - DECTPU/EVE Development

Brian J. McCarthy, Digital Equimpment Corp, 110 Spitbrook Road, Nashua, NH
mccarthy@impink.dec.com | mccarthy@tle.dec.com