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Message of Fri,
7 Feb 1992 11:14:06 CST from "Forum on LISTSERV release 1.7"
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On Fri, 7 Feb 1992 11:14:06 CST Marty Hoag <NU021172@NDSUVM1> said:
> There isn't any doc that I know of except for the REXX code. Eric
>offered me something in French but since I can't read French I passed on
>that.
I actually found out that the EARN people wrote a memo about this. It is
available via 'INFO DBCREATE' from any LISTEARN. I have not had time to
read it thoroughly, but the information seems to be based on the notes
Marty mentioned, so it should be accurate. There was no major change in
that aspect of LISTSERV between 1.5o and 1.7. There is little that
someone familiar with REXX can't figure out in say 30 minutes by reading
one of the standard drivers (LSVDBPN for instance). Most drivers were
written using cut+paste from this driver or LSVDBNB.
Also, Silvia Giordano wrote a 'driver generator' that lets you define the
database in formal terms (with a grammar); her program will then create a
REXX driver for you. There are restrictions on the type and format of the
documents it supports (it was designed for EARN documents and may or may
not be suitable for other things). The manual is available via INFO
DBDGEN from any LISTEARN, and contains introductory information similar
to the DBCREATE memo.
But as Marty said, if you are familiar with REXX you should have no
trouble using the "ultimate documentation". I have wasted the last hour
reading RSCS V3 exit customization manuals in the hope that I wouldn't
have to learn about the new organization of RSCS V3 internals. Well after
1h I hadn't found where the local nodeid was stored, what *exactly* you
get from RSCS at exit 19, and where RSCS keeps its command table so I can
scan it and find which ones are privileged (I wanted to allow
non-privileged commands from non-trusted sources, but this is apparently
not feasible without a mod). I found the answer to all questions in 10
minutes by reading DMTCMX.
Eric
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