Re: VAX BASIC, file specs, and command line arguments

On Feb 19, 12:31 pm, bdhobb...@xxxxxxx wrote:
VAX BASIC v3.8-000
VMS 7.1
emulating a VAX 4000-105A

Two things I would like to do in BASIC:
  1) Get the full file spec for a file;
  2) Get arguments from the command line.

I'm playing with the useropen clause of the open statement, but that
involves fab and nam blocks and sys$open/sys$create and sys$connect to
get the info I want.  It's not bad, but I find it clumsy to go thru
all this to get a file spec.  I was able to easily get both items in
VMS COBOL, but I was using features that were part of the language.
Any routines that'll give me what I want?  Thank you for any and all
assistance.

I did a little "OpenVMS BASIC" hacking in this aread some years ago
and posted my efforts here:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/openvms_demos.html
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/demo_vms/basic-open-useropen-bas.zip
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/demo_vms/basic-open-fsp-bas.zip
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/demo_vms/basic-fix-ftp-savesets.zip
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/demo_vms/basic-foreign-cmd.zip

These demos won't answer all your questions but may provided some of
the missing pieces.

Enjoy.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
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