HECnet Area Request - HECnet

21 Feb 2013

On 2/19/2013 10:40 AM, Dennis Boone wrote:
...
    Grab the file SG1::[DECNET]NU2.COM.   Ignore the
errors.   It does depend
   on MIM being defined as 1.13.   This procedure makes use of the file
   MIM::DU4:[DECNET]NODENAMES.DAT.   Johnny creates this file for this
   procedure.   I will not update your area nodes - that is your
   responsibility.   It can be run interactively or via batch.   It must be
   run from a priv'd account. 
Steve,

Edumacation question.   There are a number of places in NU2.COM where it
uses the switch /end_fo_file= [sic]

Unless I'm missing something "meta" about how this thing works, and
assuming it _does_ work, that succeeds in spite of the typo because...

...DCL only looks at the first 4?

De

Yes.   The DCL parser will abbreviate any keyword to the shortest unique value.   So the
first 4 may well be enough to distinguish the /end_of_file qualifier from any other
qualifier for the command.   It will vary with the command.

John H. Reinhardt