CCL V7.0B This version of CCL is a composit of the work of Angle Li at the University of Miami, Paul Sorenson at Michigan State University, and Jim Downward at KMS Fusion. Angle Li edited the code to remove all the funny F4P lables and to comment the code. In addition he conditionalized the internal commands so that section could optionally not be included. Look for the symbols $DCL and $PIP in CCL.MAC to see what effect the deleting the conditional code would have. Paul Sorenson then provide a substanitial rewrite to CCL to provide significantly more flexible command string parsing. I then fixed some bugs with the the changes, added some additional special characters and packaged this latest release for DECUS. To simplify use of CCL for user's(like myself) who often assign a local LB:(to do a sysgen). The location of SYSCCL.CCL has been moved to LB1: (unless symbol $LB0 is defined in PRECCL.MAC). To use CCL, please do a global assign of LB1: to a physical disk either in VMR or in STARTUP.CMD. As was previously mentioned, this version of CCL has been extensively rewritten to provide a more flexible command format. The major changes that must be kept in mind for this newest version are, 1) All conditional assembly directives are now in PRECCL.MAC for easier access (see comments for their affects). They are $LB0,$PIP,$DCL, and $TABLE. 2) An internal table lookup has been added to offer a compromise between DCL and the .CCL files. (see comments in CCL.MAC) 3) Several new parameters have been defined -- %A%, %B%, %C% and %0% %A% is set the the entire character string past the command. %B% is set to character string up to first space %C% is defined as everything not in %B% (excluding delimiter) %0% is set to values of any leading switches (e.g. BRU/REW/VER, %0%=/REW/VER) 4) Two options have been added for command building. If a parameter is null, it may be replaced by a string starting with the key character "\" and extending to the % delimiter, also, a parameter may be tested by %2?S1\S2% which will insert string "S1" if parameter 2 is defined, otherwise string "S2" will be inserted (either S1 or S2 may be null). 5) A command line may extend to the next line by including the "+" character as the last character in the line. 6) USERCCL.CCL is opened on the user's logon UIC rather than the current default UIC. 7) If CCL can not find a command, it will try sending off its command to another catchall ...CA2. 8) %R is a special character signifying that CCL is to ring the terminal BELL when it exits. A previous version used %B for this. Sorry for the incompatability. 9) %D is added to aid in debugging CCL command lines. When it is encountered, the command up to that point is displayed in expanded format at the user's terminal rather than being sent to MCR. 9) %P is added to signify that an action line is to be printed out on TI:. This makes it very easy to create CCL commands which send escape sequences to control terminal characteristics. 10) %Q is added to signify that CCL should exit without sending on the command to MCR if a required input field is defaulted with a null (ie %1\%) and the input parameter is also a null. This prevents various PIP like commands from occuring with no files specified which often results in defaulting to the entire directory. 11) Two possible TABLE macro files are offered. TABLE.BIG has all kinds of CCL commands and results in a significantly larger CCL. TABLE.KMS includes only those commands which used to be processed by the internal DCL code. If the PIP-like internal CCL commands are not selected for assembly and the TABLE.KMS commands are selected, CCL stays about the same size and has identical functionality. TABLEGEN.CMD allows the user to create an internal CCL file. 12) CCLGEN allows the user to select amoung the ever widening variety of options. If the user desires to use an internal table, CCLGEN will allows the user to link to TABLEGEN.CMD to create an internal table from a standard CCL file (USERCCL.CCL or SYSCCL.CCL for example). 13) CCL now checks to see if the keyword typed in is longer than the maximum specified in the file (previously was ignored). This means that commands FOO and FOOY can be different and distinct. 14) Documentation and HELP files have been updated to reflect the many, many new features Active contributers to CCL now include Mr. Angel Li RSMAS/MPO University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami, Fl. 33149 (305)-350-7491 Paul Sorenson Dept. of Physiology Mich. State Univ. E. Lansing, MI 48824 (517)-355-5125 And myself, James G. Downward KMS Fusion, Inc PO Box 1567 Ann Arbor, Mi 48106 (313)-769-8500