STREAMX Warning
STREAMX is a product from VESOFT that permits you to build flexible job streams. STREAMX contains a complete programming language with loops, prompts, and parameter substitution. A problem arises when trying to enter comments into a Qedit batch job that will be submitted with STREAMX. Qedit uses the {…} pair to delimit comments. STREAMX uses these same characters for expressions.
You cannot change Qedit’s comment character, but you can change the {…} characters in STREAMX. The following example changes the STREAMX expression characters from {…} to ~…~:
!job helpfile,user.acct ::setbraces ~~ !comment Purpose: This job stream uses the QLIB tools !comment Prose and Qhelp to create !comment a helpfile from a user manual. !comment !purge ~product~.help.acct !setjcw outhelpcomp=1 !run helpcomp.qlib.robelle;parm=3 ~product~.doc.acct yes ~product~.help.acct !release ~product~.help.acct !run qedit.pub.robelle open ~product~.help.acct list .beginkey (U) {optimizing pointers for speed} exit !tell ~hpjobname~,~hpuser~.~hpaccount~;Help created! !set stdlist=delete !eoj