VMS batch compile tricks 'n' tips. Have any?

[Chris Sharman]

Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa) wrote:
> I used to have a really neat VMS dcl script, which would parse a text file
> full of QTP/QUIZ/QDESIGN files and compile them. It also had the ability to
> compile QUIZs and QTP that use subfiles, for which are not kept (ie: without
> the KEEP verb). Manually I have to do this by starting another session via
> the '$' command.
> ie:
> 	$QTP
> 	use program.qts nol
> 	use program-b.qts nol
> 	$$quiz
> 	use program-with-qtp-subfile.qzs nol
> 	etc
> 	etc
> 
> Unfortunately in trying to put this into a DCL batch job, it crashes at the
> $$QUIZ stage because it is trying to interpret the command from within the
> same session.

DCL treats a leading $ in the input stream as EOF (ie go back to DCL), 
unless you use $deck & $eod.

Eg.
$ qtp
$deck
use ...
use ...
$quiz auto=...
use ...
use ...
$eod
$ more dcl

If you need to nest this behaviour, deck takes a qualifier, but I've 
never needed it myself. I don't know whether qtp would work this way (ie 
pass input over to the subprocess) - I suspect not. I've always used 
auto=, and no input to the subprocess.

Chris

Chris



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