Appendices

Setting the PLINAME variable

The CERNLIB cradles contain a USE statement for $PLINAME. This is replaced by the value of the environmental variable PLINAME by the utility YEXPAND.

The following list describes the meanings of the various values that can be assigned to PLINAME.

PLINAME may be set to more than one value. For example, on VXCERN PLINAME is set as follows:

Example of setting PLINAME

$ dnetarea=f$getsyi("node_area")
$ _la=(dnetarea.eq.22.or.dnetarea.eq.23)
$ _axp=f$getsyi("arch_name").eqs."Alpha"
$ if f$type(pliname) .eqs. ""
$ then
$   if _la
$     then
$       setenv PLINAME "VAX,VAXVMS,CERN"      ! at CERN
$     else
$       setenv PLINAME "VAX,VAXVMS"           ! elsewhere
$     endif
$   if _axp then setenv PLINAME 'PLINAME',QMALPH
$ endif

Thus, PLINAME will be set to "VAX,VAXVMS,CERN" for systems in DECnet areas 22 or 23 and "VAX,VAXVMS" elsewhere. If the system is an Alpha, then ",QMALPH" will be added to this string.

PLINAME should contain one or more of the following strings, as appropriate.

IBMVM

IBM mainframes running VM/CMS

IBMMVS

IBM mainframes running MVS

CONVEX

By itself, implies 64 bit version of the libraries for Convex. To get the 32 bit version, use also SINGLE.

IBM

IBM mainframe - selects features generic to both MVS and VM/CMS

SLACBATCH

Activates code specific to the SLAC Batch system for VM/CMS systems.

ALLIANT

Indicates Alliant computer. If used in conjunction with QMINTEL, implies Alliant with Intel processor.

AMIGAUX

Amiga Unix

APOLLO

Apollo workstation with the ftn compiler. If used in conjunction with APOF77, then the version appropriate for the f77 compiler will be generated.

CDC

Control Data systems

CRAY

Cray computers

DGE

Data General computers

MSDOS

PCs running MSDOS

DECS

DECstations running Ultrix. If used in conjunction with QMVAOS, implies Alpha workstations running OSF

DECOSF

New flag for Alphas running OSF

HPUX

HP workstations running HP/UX.

IBMAIX

IBM mainframes running AIX.

IBMRT

IBM Risc processors (RT, RS) running AIX.

CERN

Select CERN specific features

LINUX

PCs running the LINUX operating system.

MACMPW

Macintosh computers.

NORD500

The NORD 500 series of computers.

NECSX

NEC SX computer.

NEXT

NeXT workstations.

SGI

Silicon Graphics workstations.

SHIFT

Activate code specific to systems running the CORE/SHIFT software.

SUN

Sun workstations.

TMO

Transputer with Meiko compiler.

VAXVMS

VMS systems. If used with QMALPH, means Alpha processors.

WINNT

Windows/NT systems.

PATCHY/CMZ flags and their meanings

The following information was extracted from the KERNFOR pam file.