VMS features in PH

[Jeff Hoffman]

At 01:56 pm 17/03/99 -0000, you wrote:
>Views from a VMS/Unix/HP user:
>
>1. PHD/POW: as I've said before, I would be very sorry to lose this.

Should be part of common code.

>2. Mailboxes: I'd like to keep these.  I don't use them extensively, but
>where I do it's usually in a situation where it would be hard to find and
>alternative.  Worse, they tend to be used as part of our Powerhouse
>"infrastructure", so the few instances of mailboxes are distributed through
>all our applications.

Ditto

>3. Commandstatus/severity: I don't think I've ever used these.  If I wanted
>the information I could probably get it from the corresponding CLI symbols.

Ditto

>4. Office: I don't use this.

Ditto

>5. Logicals/symbols: as long as there is some symbolic data-passing method
>*that works in both directions*, I wouldn't have any problems.

Ditto

>6. Reverse: for the first ten years I thought this function had been
>included because somebody read a beginners' C programming book.  Then I
>found a use for it in a tricky formatting operation in Quiz, but of course I
>couldn't use it in Quiz.

Could not see why to use it, but I do now, thanks.

>7. Set job: I wouldn't miss this because I've hardly ever used it.  I use
>DCL procedures to create batch jobs because the environmental requirements
>for a batch job are usually too complicated to set up with "set job".

I use 'set job' extensively in a menu system but also to debug multipass
reports.

>8. Timestamp: we use Rdb, so our timestamps are Rdb ANSI timestamps, but I
>can't say we use those extensively.

Ditto


BACKWARDS: Would be very handy.

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