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Another new DCL feature

Guy Peleg has once again announced a cool new feature for an upcoming version of VMS: the ability to easily customise the output of control-t.

To do this, you define a DCL symbol called DCL$CTRLT. This can be done either in a command procedure just by defining the symbol, or in a program by calling lib$set_symbol(). The contents of the symbol are then output following the normal control-t display.

Guy says that unfortunately they missed getting this into the 8.2 release stream, but he is willing to backport it to 7.3-2 if there is sufficient interest.

I for one am extremely interested. Start those regression tests rolling, Guy!