Using SB+ TCL Synonyms

[precisonline]

I was happening to be browsing the SB+ READMEs lately and noticed a feature that I had long forgotten in SB+'s /TCL process.  If you happen to have a command that's difficult to type correctly, or just too long and you don't want to type it over and over again, you can use == to assign the command to something shorter and/or easier to type.  For example, try entering this at TCL:

SV == SORT VOC WITH F1 = "F]" "DIR]" F2 F3

Then enter SV at the next TCL prompt and you'll see the results.  These definitions - which SB+ calls "synonyms" - are in DMSECURITY under the name $SYN*userId and apparently stay around forever.  This is easier than creating a proc or paragraph - as long as you're using SB+'s /TCL to execute commands.  Even more useful, these can be fragments of commands (like SEL == SELECT) or (GL == GET.LIST) to make typing easier!

Oh, and if you don't want the synonym any longer, you can enter SV == to make it go away.

[GBoiceJr]

Kevin,

My co-worker, Bill Hollar and I tried this and WOW!  What a really nice tool!   

Thanks for sharing this!

Grant W. Boice, Jr.  (GBoiceJr)

[DonQuixote]

is there a way to get the list of all your 'synonyms'?
Nice feature, thanks.

[Tom Pellitieri]

One way would be to do a raw listing.  In UniData:

LIST DMSECURITY "$SYN*user.id" F2 F3 FMT "40L" ID-SUPP

Not the prettiest, but it works.