Everhart,Glenn
From:	schenkenberg@eisner.decus.org
Sent:	Friday, April 17, 1998 10:05 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: Finding/setting DCL prompt
In article <6h7e3n$9ue$1@pump1.york.ac.uk>, dla1@tardis.york.ac.uk (D L Atkin) writes:
> We have an old bit of MACRO-32 code which gets and sets the current DCL
> prompt string. it looks something like
> 
> 	moval   g^ctl$ag_clidata,r6                     ; Ptr to cli space
> 	moval   @ppd$l_prc(r6),r6
> 	movzbl  prc_b_promptlen(r6),r0			; length
> 	subl    #3,r0
> 	movab   prc_g_prompt(r6),r1                     ; Address of prompt
> 	...etc
> 
> It's worked for years on a VAX but it doesn't work on an Alpha running
> VMS 7.1-1H1. The symbols don't seem to exist - probably something to do
> with new fangled things like kernel threads!
> 
> Does anyone know if it's possible to do this on an Alpha? 

Well, I don't have 7.1-1H1 but I do have G7.2-EFT1 and these symbols are 
still there.

Have you tried to link it properly?????

Try /SYSEXE and link is against/with SYS$LOADABLE_IMAGES:DCLDEF.STB

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