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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 23:10:46 -0500
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On 11/23/2024 10:35 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> If somebody have a program that need to allow user to
> edit data and the program is VMS specific and the target
> editors are EDT and TPU, then maybe doing the edit in
> memory makes sense.
> 
> You can still argue that both subprocess with external editor
> and temp file or simple callable editor editor with temp file is
> simpler code wise using just the VMS provided API's and
> not some wrapper found on the internet.
> 
> But I like multiple options.

I just created a JNI wrapper around the callable
editor wrappers.

So now the Groovy snippets:

res = Edit.edt("A\nBB\nCCC")
print(res)

and:

res = Edit.tpu("A\nBB\nCCC")
print(res)

work.

Arne