Re: Suggestion for INSTALL PURGE and SHUTDOWN.COM

David J Dachtera wrote: 
Bart Zorn wrote:

JF wrote:


Because P1 to P8 symbols are not available from a called procedure,
SYSHUTDWN has no way of knowing whether the user has requested an
automatic reboot or not.


This is not true. If you do DELETE/SYMBOL/LOCAL P1 in a called
procedure, the instance of P1 of the calling procedure becomes
available in the called procedure!



Someone posted that exact solution to a similar query not long ago. I'd
intended to include it in the Advanced portion of my DCL Programming
Hands-On, but I don't think I did.

I didn't reasearch it, but I'm not at all certain the correspondents at
THAT time were not Bart and JF!


Aw shucks.  That was me - posted on 9-Feb-2005 in a thread with the
title "REBOOT or SHUTDOWN, how to tell in SYSHUTDWN.COMj" (sic).

Roy Omond
Blue Bubble Ltd.
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