[Download-List] DOWNLOAD Version 8 Compile and Run Issues

[Charles Stevenson]

Some responses below.

Warm regards,
Chuck Stevenson

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Rotman, David <rotmand at cedarville.edu>
wrote:

> I have some syntax questions for those of you who are more familiar with
> Universe:
>
> 1.  This set of lines seems to execute correctly in Universe on Windows,
> but I cannot find any documentation on the '/c'.  Is this the correct
> format?  Are there other options to the DOS command?
>          X.COMMAND =  'DOS /C perl c:\temp\myprogram.pl'
>          EXECUTE X.COMMAND
>

That's about it.  Case insensitive.  everything that follows /c  goes to
dos.
E.g.  "/L" is the lowercase option for DIR cmd:

>DOS /C DIR /L
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 0A91-A3A1

 Directory of C:\UVDB\CDS

06/30/2015  09:06 AM    <DIR>          .
06/30/2015  09:06 AM    <DIR>          ..
02/01/2014  10:42 AM            18,432 &metadata000
06/30/2015  09:06 AM    <DIR>          &temp&
09/18/2014  02:31 AM             3,072 acts.f
06/30/2015  09:06 AM    <DIR>          acts.t
07/16/2015  10:38 AM    <DIR>          bp
06/30/2015  09:06 AM    <DIR>          bp.l



> 2.  What changes would be needed to run the lines in Universe on Linux?
>  (I gather that an 'sh' is needed...upper case?  lower case?  any other
> arguments?)
>

SH instead of DOS, yes.   E.g.:

>SH -c"ls -la | more"


>
> 3.  What kinds of errors are generated by DLPARSE when encountering
> Q-pointers?
>

It doesn't seem to find a file on the command line.
I didn't get very far yet but I changed this line in the
CHECK.VOC.FOR.NONFIELD  gosub:

      BEGIN CASE
       * CASE (VOC.ITEM.TYPE = 'F' OR VOC.ITEM.TYPE = 'DIR') AND
PASSED.LOOKUP.FILE.NAME   ; * CDS 7/15
         CASE (VOC.ITEM.TYPE = 'F' OR VOC.ITEM.TYPE = 'Q'  ) AND
PASSED.LOOKUP.FILE.NAME   ; * CDS 7/15
            DEBUG4
            CRT 'Opening ':ITEM
         END
         OPEN '', ITEM TO F.TEST THEN
'DIR' is not valid  VOC  Type for files.  "F",  "Q", "f", & "q"  are.
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