Odd PH VAX Code

[EDISR@dteenergy.com]

The *4x etc. appear to be CMS (DEC's Code Management System) annotation
lines 
indicating what generation modified what line in the source code.  The 4 
indicate the generation and the letter what reservation of that generation.  
CMS is capable of multiple reserves when more than one person is working on 
the source module and will reconcile the different changes once all the 
reservations have been replaced. 
 
The CMS command 'CMS ANNOTATE filename/GENERATION=4' would have produced
what 
you see.  Here is an example from the CMS help: 
 
ANNOTATE TIMECVT.BAS/GENERATION=3 
 
Annotated listing for element TIMECVT.BAS in CMS Library 
DISKX:[WORK.CMSLIB]  25-APR-1988 15:50:29 
  
 4    15-APR-1988 10:01:55 JAMES "additional error checks" 
*3    12-APR-1988 15:49:01 JAMES "add check for invalid delta time" 
*2    27-MAR-1988 12:39:58 JAMES "jp - fixed length string required" 
*1    25-MAR-1988 15:37:11 JAMES "time conversion program" 
  
Annotated listing for element TIMECVT.BAS in CMS Library 
DISKX:[WORK.CMSLIB]  25-APR-1988 15:50:29 
  
         1       10      rem Program to compute an absolute time given the 
present time 
         2               rem and a delta time. The result is written to a
file. 
         3 
         4       20      OPTION TYPE = EXPLICIT 
         5               DECLARE STRING DELTA_TIME 
 2       6               MAP (STRING_LEN) STRING ASC_TIME = 80 
         7               DECLARE LONG RETCODE 
         8               DIM LONG BINARY_DELTA(1) 
         9               DIM LONG NOW(1) 
        10              DIM LONG BINARY_CVT_TIME(1) 
 
I hope that helps. 
 
Incidently.  We are moving from OpenVMS to HP/UX and therefore losing CMS as
a 
valuable tool.  Does anybody know of something similar for HP/UX 10? 
 
Robert Edis (Blue) 
Technical Consultant 
Michigan, USA 
(VAX/VMS, ORACLE Rdb, PowerHouse 4GL)
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