From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 9/19/2025 8:35 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:26:43 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> On 9/18/2025 10:17 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> Does perror(3) take care of this for you?   
   >>   
   >> I do not have any intention of wrap perror - it is a very specific   
   >> composite function.   
   >   
   > Then the problem is that you have to repeat that long sequence of code in   
   > every project.   
      
   If a big application were to use this, then they will have to add   
   a library function for it or more likely they already have one.   
      
   But the implementation will likely be different for different   
   places.   
      
   Target: SYS$OUTPUT, SYS$ERROR, syslog or something else.   
   Format: single text lines, JSON, XML or something else.   
   Information: any combination of string argument, errno text,   
   time, code location, system and maybe a few more.   
      
   The chance that a VMS Pascal application will standardize   
   on perror style (SYS$ERROR, single text line, string argument +   
   errno text) seems pretty slim to me.   
      
   Arne   
      
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