RE: [p4] VMS editor problems

Hi,

I actually couldn't see any responses at all (would be nice if people sent 
answers to the mailing list as well). Don't know if it helps, but using NEDIT 
always worked fine for me.

Setting P4EDITOR to NEDIT and then invoking "perforce client" or "perforce 
submit" works just fine. I haven't defined the perforce client symbol as "P4" 
due to possible name collisions with command (DCL) file arguments (P1-P8) - 
instead I use e.g. PE*RFORCE :== "$DISK$USER:[P4]P4.exe".

I also normally don't use "TEMP" on our VMS systems. I tried it out now though 
(def/log TEMP "sys$scratch:"), and it also seems to work just fine.

VMS version is OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-1, perforce client is latest available for 
Alpha OpenVMS (2002.something).

// Johan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:perforce-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Bjorn.Kallarsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: den 22 november 2004 16:28
> To: perforce-user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [p4] VMS editor problems
> 
>  
> I recieved a lot of feedback on my problem and I'd like to 
> thank you all for it.
> 
> Being a VMS neophyte I used the Perforce documentation way of 
> setting variables, namely "def/j <variable> <value>". When 
> p4editor is set, "p4 set" reports it P4EDITOR=edit along with 
> P4PORT=x.x.x.x:y.
> 
> Invoking "p4 client -o" outputs the client configuration on 
> screen just as it's supposed to.
> 
> When invoking "p4 client" it immediately returns the message 
> "Client #### not changed." and then the prompt. Nothing 
> indicates it even trying to start an editor.
> 
> I've only tried using "edit" or "type" as values for editor 
> and neither works with p4 client. Editing file.txt in the 
> same directory as TEMP is pointing to works ok and pops up 
> the editor as expected.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:perforce-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Källarsson Björn
> Sent: den 22 november 2004 14:12
> To: perforce-user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [p4] VMS editor problems
> 
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I'm new to this list but I feel like I know you all already 
> from browsing the mail archives. We're currently evaluating 
> cm tools for the VMS platform and Perforce is one of the 
> remaining few that actually advertises support for VMS.
> 
> However I'm having trouble using the p4 command line client 
> from VMS to access a Windows server. Whenever I try a command 
> that should present a form in an editor it just returns 
> without even trying to invoke the editor:
> 
> $ p4 client
> Client #### not changed.
> 
> I've tried setting both EDITOR and P4EDITOR to real and bogus 
> values and nothing changes? The TEMP variable has been set to 
> my home directory which is writable.
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> 
> TIA
> --
> Björn Källarsson
> TietoEnator Public&Healthcare
> 
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