Re: free format replace I-specs and plist

Thank you Scott and Jon for your explanations. And Scott, thank you for
your efforts on willing to make an Open Access interface. Great!

Best regards,
-Arco

2016-11-19 7:39 GMT+01:00 Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Jon,

Not only did you answer your own question, you answered it this morning,
more than 8 hours before you asked it when you told Arco it couldn't be
done with free format. :-)

But for those who don't understand, I'm not using the CALL opcode (nor
would I -- yuck) I'm using a SPECIAL file. SPECIAL files are the
precursor to open access, and UNIXCMD was written in 2009, before OA was
available.

A SPECIAL file has a feature (which UNIXCMD utilizes) where you can
specify a PLIST on the F-spec (or DCL-F) and those parameters will be
passed to the SPECIAL file program (the equivalent to the OA handler). But,
the only way to generate a PLIST is using fixed format, since the PLIST
concept (like SPECIAL files and the CALL opcode) are considered obsolete
and so were never added to free format.

I will make an OA interface to UNIXCMD tomorrow. Should be very easy to
do.

On 11/18/2016 7:01 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

OOOpppssss - answered my own question - I forgot that it was a SPECIAL
file.


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