carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (04/08/88)
Some time ago, there was a question regarding the possibility of using a DCL command to write a record to a terminal without a carriage return at the end. As I recall, the concensus was that it wasn't possible. The following DCL procedure shows that there IS a way to do this, if you're willing to sacrifice type-ahead to do so: $ n = 0 $ string = "This /is /an /example/." $ set term/notype $ loop: prompt = f$element(n,"/",string) $ if prompt .eqs. "/" then goto done $ n = n + 1 $ read/prompt="''prompt'"/time=0/err=loop sys$command fubar $ done: set term/type