I have a big shell script to be ported to DCL com script. The shell script contains commands like "head -100" , sed and awk which does lots of things quite tacitly. Any examples on these how to expand these tacit commands to DCL script will be of great help.

Hi, I don't know much about shell scripts. But I remember that sed is a kind of programmable editor. There is a programmable editor edit/tpu on VMS. I can't remember that there is a tool to migrate to DCL. Do you know about all the commands in the shell script? Or do you need somebody to translate? Klaus

AWK is available as freeware for OpenVMS, see: http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/freeware50/FREEWARE/00FREEWARE_ABSTRACT.TXT SED is availabel under the V4 CD. You can look for HEAD. Phil

Of course, the better way is to look what the shell script does and then think how you would do that on VMS. These SED and AWK scripts usually are not very efficient to start with, and a program written in C, COBOL or whatever might do the job better.