DECUS Essential Tools Collection, 1996 for OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX (VS0174)

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                       * * *   S Y M B O L   * * * 
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Description:
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SYMBOL provides the capability to define, display and delete DCL symbols
in the context of any process in a VMScluster.   When installed,  SYMBOL
can be used by any user in the VMScluster to define, display, or  delete
symbols in its own symbol table or in the symbol table of any process in
the VMScluster.  Privileges are required to affect any process which the
user does not own or have rights to access.  

SYMBOL displays the symbol table's contents using the same output format
as the OpenVMS DCL command '$ SHOW SYMBOL'.   A single equal sign '=' is
used to denote LOCAL symbols and, the double equal sign '==' is used for
denoting GLOBAL symbols.  Binary symbols are formatted with the familiar
decimal, hexadecimal and octal presentation.

SYMBOL can be a valuable utility for both the system manager and the DCL
programmer.  Using SYMBOL, the system manager can easily modify and view 
a user's DCL environment.   Developers of DCL command procedures can use 
SYMBOL as a DCL debugging utility which provides the ability to observe
both the symbol, by name, and its equivalence string while the procedure
is executing in a process.

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Release Information: (v3.4%091)
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This is a minor update to SYMBOL package version V3.4%062

This release of SYMBOL contains a minor modification to SYMBOL$AST_LEI.
This modification permits the LEI's initialization routine on an OpenVMS
AXP system to automatically determine the offset to the DCL$CHANGE_MODE
dispatcher's procedure descriptor.  Thus, SYMBOL should now work on all
currently known versions of the OpenVMS AXP operating system.

For further information, refer to file $$$SYMBOL.INFORMATION-V3_4-062.

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 Any feedback on SYMBOL will be appreciated.  Send comments or suggestions 
 to: brians@advsyscon.com or Schenkenberg@Eisner.DECUS.Org.  
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