From: hoffman@xdelta.zko.dec.nospam
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 5:04 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: analysing object libraries


In article <8oja2t$j8c$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, waarom_nok@my-deja.com writes:
:I am making an header-files out of an analysation of a message object.
:This works OK.

  It's also the hard way -- there's a freely-available easier way.

  Get GNM and SDL off the Freeware.

  GNM lets you have one source file that generates SDML and MSG files.

  SDML can be run through DOCUMENT to produce the error messages and
  recovery documentation in various formats such as HTML and Postscript.
  (If you don't have DOCUMENT, you can ignore this file...)

  MSG files are run through the MESSAGE compiler to produce the message
  object file and the message pointer file (or both together, if you do
  not want a separate message file), and (more importantly) the MESSAGE
  compiler can also generate an SDL file (MESSAGE/SDL).

  An SDL file can be used to generate include files for a variety of
  languages.  SDL/VMS_DEV/C_DEV/LANGUAGE=C is the typical command used
  for OpenVMS include files.

 --------------------------- pure personal opinion ---------------------------
   Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman   OpenVMS Engineering   hoffman#xdelta.zko.dec.com