On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:40:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > !I'll look into SYS$PARSE, but that would mean writing an executable, which > !violates "using only *very* commonly available VMS tools." > > No - please do not bother. F$parse() is enough of a wrapper around > sys$parse that if it cannot provide an extra layer of de-obfuscation > then there may be no point in taking matters any further.
Yes, I seems less complicated to just use Perl. Hopefully I can minimize the number of seperate perl "-MFile::Spec" calls a bit without exceeding 256 characters. File the idea under "O" for "Oh well". -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One Plus I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada the typical infinite loop would be normally be terminated by detonation. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
