Re: Capturing DCL output in symbol

On 5/11/2025 3:17 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:

On 5/9/25 11:32 PM, David Meyer wrote:

I found that one way to do it is to put all the processing that uses the
command output inside subshells in the same PIPE command.
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One shortcoming of this method is that it's very easy to go over the
maximum command element length allowed inside the PIPE. For my
procedure, I was able to get around this by choosing lexical functions
to minimize the length of the PIPE command.
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Any other way to do this?

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It's pretty easy with Perl:
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$ perl -"MVMS::DCLsym" -e "$x=`show time`; VMS::DCLsym-

setsym('mysym', $x, 'GLOBAL');"

$ SHOW SYMBOL mysym
   MYSYM == "   11-MAY-2025 14:10:89."
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 It's probably easy to do in a lot of scripting languages.
But the original request specified DCL.  Might be he
expects the script to have to run on machines that only
have VMS on them.