oberman@LLL-ICDC.ARPA ("Oberman, Kevin") (06/21/87)
>On VAX/VMS 4.5, I discovered this (when I was really paying attention): > >$ SHOW LOGICAL FOO >%SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name FOO > >I hardly think that was "sucessful;" more like it should be "%SHOW-W-NOTRAN"... > >What do you think? Should I get our university to SPR it or does somebody in >net/newsgroupland know if SHOW.EXE has been fixed, and we never got it? > >I had to quickly check another machine in the cluster to see that it was there, >too... While I don't class it as a bug, I do agree it should be a WARNING. It is successful in the sense that the no error occured in the translation process. There was simply no translation found. This is akin to SEARCH not finding a string. In an earlier version a -S- message was returned even if the string was not found. The search completed with no errors, after all. It's now been changed to a -W-. I find it much better as I can now check the $SEVERITY instead of $STATUS in command proceedures. I can also branch on a warning without decoding the full returned value. R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory arpa: oberman@lll-icdc.arpa (415) 422-6955 Disclaimer: Neither my employer nor myself can take resposibility for the accuracy of this information. I believe it is correct, but if it's not I can only say "Sorry". I'm a rotten typist and a worse speller, so forgive any silly errors. ------