RE: progress report on piping on VMS

[PVHP]

Charles Lane wrote:

>So what do we do?  Some options:
>    1.  use vmsish 'messages'       off by default   -> no VMS messages
>    2.  use ???    '?quietude?'     off by default   -> VMS messages
>    3.  use vmsish 'messages'       ON by default (violating Dan's rule)
>
>I don't think the ??? should be "unixish". We're not playing in their
>sandbox, we shouldn't use their namespace.  But it beats me what pragma
>name we could use that is sensible, off by default, and implies getting
>the VMSish error messages.  Time to hit the thesaurus.

I was being quite facetious hence the smiley :-)

How about:

    4.  use vmsish 'nomessages';      off by default   -> VMS messages

That is, we move the negation to the argument to the pragma?

Peter Prymmer