On Aug 13, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to use a VMS perl interface to
sys$getrmi.
I'm attempting to write my own version, but if
anyone has already started this effort and
has some ideas, or eve better, working code,
please contact me; offline is fine.
If / when I get this done, it will get to
CPAN.
Carl,
I would think VMS::Monitor would do the trick:
http://search.cpan.org/~dsugal/VMS-Monitor-0_06/monitor/monitor.pm
It uses the EXE$GETSPI interface, which was the undocumented
predecessor to SYS$GETRMI. It should be a fairly mechanical operation
to convert the $GETSPI calls to $GETRMI if that's needed for some
reason, but whether the item codes are all still the same, whether all
item codes of interest are included, whether it works as is on OVMS
v8.3 and Itanium -- those are all unknowns here. It might well run
out of the box with no modifications, or it might need some TLC to get
modern, but I can't think of any reason to reinvent the wheel or start
from scratch.
I'm believe, as with all of Dan's modules, I'm "co-maintainer" of this
module, which means I can apply patches to the CPAN version if you
send them in.
_
Craig A. Berry
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difficult than getting in."
Brad Leithauser
