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A-Shell Development History

Navigation: Version 4.6, builds 699-791

750 — 29 September 2000

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1. OPTIONS=AMOS_RUNSBR now supports XCALL AMOS,"ORUN xxx" in addition to XCALL AMOS,"RUN xxx" (see 4.6(749) item 4 below.) Also note that although the ability of executing an XCALL AMOS command as a true subroutine within the current job (rather than launching a new job and new process) is limited to commands that start with "RUN " or "ORUN ", it is possible to execute LIT commands by preceding them with "RUN ". For example:

 

 XCALL AMOS,"RUN SYS:DIR.LIT/D/V/H = *.*"

 

The only XCALL AMOS commands which cannot be executed this way are CMD and DO files.

 

2. (UNIX) SYSTAT.LIT 2.1(132) fixes the /R (show real, i.e. non-pshell control jobs only) switch, and also now correctly shows 0K for the partition size on pshell control jobs. (The control jobs do take up memory, like any UNIX executable, but they don't have a memory "partition" for loading RUN modules; it is the size of the "partition" which shows in SYSTAT.) Note that this requires pshell 1.4(137).

 

3. Clean up a few miscellaneous problems with the XCALL mechanism for subroutines written in Basic (SBX modules.) Symptoms included wrong values received by the SBX for literal parameters and also strange file errors in the calling program.