RCOPROB@HDETUD1.BITNET (Rob van Hoboken +31 15 78-3813) (06/07/89)
Two questions concerning MACLIBs on CMS. 1. Has anyone written a reasonably safe and efficient COMPRESS command to squeeze out unused space from a MACLIB? The MACLIB COMPRESS option seems slightly inefficient concerning disk space usage. Our system has SMALL minidisks and our MACLIBs are L A R G E. I understand the problems with safely copying members from the old maclib to the other, but with a backup copy of the MACLIB in spool, I don't think I am in great danger (my system doesn't just die in the middle of the day. 2. Is there any way to use a "set of files" instead of a MACLIB for the ASSEMBLER SYSLIB filedef? Guess what, two of us is use ISPF/PDF to develop lots of code, macros and structured programs, and they are lirical about the "set of file" concept of ISPF/PDF. This means they can edit lots of files with FILETYPE MACRO from one member selection list. When they want to use these macros in an assembly, they have to do a MACLIB ADD command, and our minidisk space is pretty small. These two are getting fed up of using MACLIBs to do their development, because of the above problem. Compressing your maclib every 20 minutes seems to be frustrating. I can see two options: - a patch in one of the IEV modules to accept files with some kind of FILETYPE before searching in the GLOBAL MACLIBs for a member - a FILEDEF exit which you specify on the SYSLIB filedef. This exit would accept the filenames (with asteriks) for SYSLIB and look at any file that fits this mask. Suggestions or help on both accounts is appreciated.
phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (06/08/89)
I keep all my MACRO and COPY files as compressed individual files so that
they are easily available for editing. I rebuild FROM SCRATCH a MACLIB
when I need it. I often leave it on my A disk for a long time, but it is
one of the first to go when I need the space, because I can rebuild it again
any time I need to. I am an EXEC that reads a file which lists which MACRO
and COPY files I want. If I do:
bldmaclib xyz
then BLDMACLI EXEC will read XYZ MACLIST for a list of files and build
the XYZ MACLIB file.