More VMS - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Mar 2002

Rumor has it that Paul Thompson may have mentioned these words:

...
 There is a utility called persona that will work on
recent versions of 
VMS which effectively works like su.  You would need to install it with 
priv's in order not to be running those priv's needed to run it in your 
usual account.

PERSONA.MAR, you would need to
MACRO PERSONA.MAR
LINK PERSONA.MAR (LINK/SYSEXE on alpha, as I recall) 
[snip]

...
 10$:
        ; MOVAB ROUT1,M_DESC            ; Done at initialization
        PUSHAL  PROMP
        PUSHAL  P_DESC
        CALLS   #2,G^LIB$GET_FOREIGN    ; Get required username
        BLBS    R0,20$                  ; of not OK, then
        BRW     100$                    ;    jump to error - message [snip]

Is this an example of VAX/VMS assembly language?
And if so, what would a good reference be to learn it?

Thankz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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