Aucbvax.6813 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!info-vax Tue Apr 20 07:55:22 1982 Re: Foreign command line >From Samuelson@SANDIA Tue Apr 20 07:49:13 1982 Mail-from: ARPANET site DEC-MARLBORO rcvd at 20-Apr-82 0756-MST Date: 20 Apr 1982 0956-EST From: Rich Schneider To: info-vax at SANDIA Dept: ECS Engineering Subject: Foreign command line Message-ID: <"MS10(2055)+GLXLIB1(1056)" AT DEC-MARLBORO 11817352604.17.111.13570> I've just finished writing a menu driven front-end for most of our utilities. What I've found out from user's is that initially they love the menu, mainly because they have no idea of what util's are available. However after a few weeks of use they know what util's are there and their names. It would be easier for them just to type in the util name at DCL. So what I want to do is examine the command name that invoked the image and if it's not UMENU (Utility MENU) then use it as an option name. Unfortuneately LIB$GET_FOREIGN doesn't return the command name. Is there any way I can call CLI$ to get this info? -------- If you define the command symbol like this: UMENU :== $progname UMENU Then the UMENU will show up in the command line read with CLI (or LIB$GET_FOREIGN). - Sam - ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.