> Does anyone know what the FOCUS application is written in?  COBOL?  FORTRAN? ???

David J Dachtera suggest that I dump the application....

And... I have not had a chance to investigate the others, some are system
lib's, etc... this is related to my MP Synch investigation

FUSELIB_001
CMA$TIS_SHR_001       <-- C
LIBRTL_001
DECC$SHR_001          <-- C
DEC$FORRTL_001        <-- FORTRAN
LBRSHR_001
SCRSHR_001
DPML$SHR_001
LIBOTS_001
PAS$RTL_001
SMGSHR_001
SORTSHR_001
DISMNTSHR_001
MOUNTSHR_001


John "REBOOT" Brandon
VMS Systems Administrator
firstname.lastname.spam.me.not@dalsemi.com

In article <06091311293295@dscis6-0.dalsemi.com>, brandon@dalsemi.com (BRANDON, JOHN M) writes:
>> Does anyone know what the FOCUS application is written in?  COBOL?  FORTRAN? ???
>
>David J Dachtera suggest that I dump the application....
>
>And... I have not had a chance to investigate the others, some are system
>lib's, etc... this is related to my MP Synch investigation
>
>FUSELIB_001
>CMA$TIS_SHR_001       <-- C
>LIBRTL_001
>DECC$SHR_001          <-- C
>DEC$FORRTL_001        <-- FORTRAN
>LBRSHR_001
>SCRSHR_001
>DPML$SHR_001
>LIBOTS_001
>PAS$RTL_001
>SMGSHR_001
>SORTSHR_001
>DISMNTSHR_001
>MOUNTSHR_001
>
>
>John "REBOOT" Brandon
>VMS Systems Administrator
>firstname.lastname.spam.me.not@dalsemi.com
>

Also apparently referencing PAS$RTL, which might make one think
there are modules written in Pascal.

Although these are nice hints, you can't always assume that because
an image has references to FORRTL or COBRTL that it actually
contains code that has gone through the FORTRAN or COBOL compilers.
It's fairly common practice in the OpenVMS world to use routines
from whatever RTL contains something useful: which is most of them.
I have programs that use a routine in the BASIC RTL that contain
no BASIC code, and I don't even have the compiler/interpretor.

Just who / what is the FOCUS application?  Perhaps more information
on that, or just what it is that you're really trying to find out,
would elicit a more useful answer.

Bart.

In article <NfXNg.50$6k5.61@news.oracle.com>,
 lederman@star.enet.dec.DISABLE-JUNK-EMAIL.com (Bart Z. Lederman) 
 wrote:

> Just who / what is the FOCUS application?  Perhaps more information
> on that, or just what it is that you're really trying to find out,
> would elicit a more useful answer.

It's a reporting tool from Information Builders.  It's gosh awful hard 
to find anything about the OpenVMS version on their web site.  
Apparently it's been superseded by WebFOCUS, which is apparently in 
Java.

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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:53:16 -0700, Craig A. Berry  
<craigberry@mac.com.spamfooler> wrote:

> In article <NfXNg.50$6k5.61@news.oracle.com>,
>  lederman@star.enet.dec.DISABLE-JUNK-EMAIL.com (Bart Z. Lederman)
>  wrote:
>
>> Just who / what is the FOCUS application?  Perhaps more information
>> on that, or just what it is that you're really trying to find out,
>> would elicit a more useful answer.
>
> It's a reporting tool from Information Builders.  It's gosh awful hard
> to find anything about the OpenVMS version on their web site.
> Apparently it's been superseded by WebFOCUS, which is apparently in
> Java.
>
It may have been written in PL/I.  I have a vague recollection of them  
enquiring about our PL/I for Unix about 20 years ago.



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"Bart Z. Lederman" wrote:
> 
> In article <06091311293295@dscis6-0.dalsemi.com>, brandon@dalsemi.com (BRANDON, JOHN M) writes:
> >> Does anyone know what the FOCUS application is written in?  COBOL?  FORTRAN? ???
> >
> >David J Dachtera suggest that I dump the application....
> >
> >And... I have not had a chance to investigate the others, some are system
> >lib's, etc... this is related to my MP Synch investigation
> >
> >FUSELIB_001
> >CMA$TIS_SHR_001       <-- C
> >LIBRTL_001
> >DECC$SHR_001          <-- C
> >DEC$FORRTL_001        <-- FORTRAN
> >LBRSHR_001
> >SCRSHR_001
> >DPML$SHR_001
> >LIBOTS_001
> >PAS$RTL_001
> >SMGSHR_001
> >SORTSHR_001
> >DISMNTSHR_001
> >MOUNTSHR_001
> >
> >
> >John "REBOOT" Brandon
> >VMS Systems Administrator
> >firstname.lastname.spam.me.not@dalsemi.com
> >
> 
> Also apparently referencing PAS$RTL, which might make one think
> there are modules written in Pascal.
> 
> Although these are nice hints, you can't always assume that because
> an image has references to FORRTL or COBRTL that it actually
> contains code that has gone through the FORTRAN or COBOL compilers.
> It's fairly common practice in the OpenVMS world to use routines
> from whatever RTL contains something useful: which is most of them.
> I have programs that use a routine in the BASIC RTL that contain
> no BASIC code, and I don't even have the compiler/interpretor.

Bart is quite correct. I had some DIBOL code that called BASIC RTL
routines to do things that DIBOL didn't provide.

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