JSOTTILE@LOYVAX.BITNET (11/25/87)
Recently, a user came up to me and asked me "How can I EDIT a file from
my program and return back to my program where it left off." Being
narrow minded, I said "Call LIB$SPAWN (etc etc)."
That was a fine answer for her, but not for me. I needed to do the call
myself and i refused to do a lib$spawn. There had to be a better way. Well,
there is. Now, all you Vax Guru folks out there relax and go on to the next
message.
(Boy it got quiet in here). Ok, there is a callable routine that allows you
to do it. Here's the call
EDT$EDIT (infile [,outfile] [,comfile] [,joufile] [,options] [,fileio]
[,workio] [,xlate])
infile, outfile, comfile, joufile must be passed by descriptor
options is a mask passed by reference
fileio, workio, and xlate are vectors (reference to a procedure)
I can't seem to find out what ALL of the parameters are, but one can figure
out most of them.
- John Sottile
Student Systems Programmer
Loyola College in Maryland
(JSOTTILE@LOYVAX.BITNET)