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Obsolete Routines

The following routines are obsolete and are no longer supported, even under VMS. Some of them haven't been supported for a long time, but they were still documented.

• make_upper_case: This routine was never documented but was available externally. It should only be an internal routine, and is not now visible externally. Use appropriate SUBLIB routines to convert strings to upper case.

• print: This routine was supposed to print messages to the line printer or operator console, but that was disabled long ago. It only printed messages to the terminal. Replace by using x/ zvmessage.

• sfor2c: While a new routine of the same name exists, there are enough changes in the calling sequence and rules of use to consider the old one to be an obsolete routine. Any calls to sfor2c will have to be completely rewritten.

• vic1lab: This routine has been moved to SUBLIB instead of the RTL. It has some changes in the calling sequence as well.

• xvpinit: This routine has been replaced by zvpinit. However, since it should only be called by the main include files and never by applications, this should have no impact.

• xvprnt: Used only for debugging, it printed out the contents of the internal file unit table. No longer supported.

• xvrecpar: This routine was used in conjunction with xvcommand to get outputs from a procedure. Instead of calling the sequence xvcommand, xvrecpar, now just call the single routine x/ zvcmdout. Only one application ever used xvrecpar, and that has been updated, so there should be no impact for this change.