js@UW-JUNE.ARPA (Joe Meadows) (03/19/86)
I just tried posting the source to VERB, probably a mistake as it's about 48k. I'm not familiar with unix at all, if someone would be so kind as to offer their help, I would love to make VERB available via FTP. If it did make it through a couple of mailers than perhaps someone else could make it available. Just thought I'd mention a couple of other things .. DEC supposedly has their own internal program for doing what VERB does (extracting command language definitions), which I have heard of but not seen. Also, my version will extract definitions from one of three places, a command table file, your current process tables, or from an arbitrary image. That last is a bit strange, so, heres an example (it's a feature I added just a few days ago on a whim, so it's not documented). $ VERB/IMAGE=imagename/SYMBOL=symbolname * For instance, theres an smg internal cld at SMG$$AB_DEFKEY_CLD, so, to access it, you would need to do the following: (choose your language here) declare SMG$$AB_DEFKEY_CLD as an external function (end of program) (compile program) Create an options file like: TEST.OPT TEST.OBJ ! include the image (suppose it was called test) UNIVERSAL=SMG$$AB_DEFKEY_CLD and do LINK/SHARE TEST/OPT, to create TEST.EXE, then you need to define TEST to point to the program TEST (because of LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL, which expects things in SYS$SHARE) and then say: $ VERB/IMAGE=TEST/SYMBOL=SMG$$AB_DEFKEY_CLD * Anyway, everything else is documented that is, if the last message which had the sources in it go out okay... Cheers.
ABSTINE@CLVMS.BITNET.UUCP (12/04/86)
Could somebody send me the VERB program from one of the past DECUS tapes? Thanks in advance... Art Stine Systems Programmer Clarkson Univ BITNET: ABSTINE@CLVMS