TOP Tool Samples

TOP allows users to configure "tools" which extend the functionality of TOP. Tools can also be used to integrate a site's compilation and build mechanisms into TOP (from version 4.6.0 onwards).

Tools can be imported into TOP from text configuration files - each of the examples on this page can be saved as a text file and then imported into TOP for use in the users environment. Use the Tools|Organise menu in the TOP System Explorer to access the import mechanism.

Standard Tools

TACL> - starts a TACL session up in the specified subvol.
vproc - run the HP vproc program against a file.
deItug - decompress and extract an ITUGLIB OSS archive.

Compile and Link/Bind Tools

nmc - run the Native Mode C compiler against the file in the editor.
nld - run the nld linker to link a file compiled from the editor.
RMSMake - a more complex tool that runs the Emperex external make tool to compile a program. It would probably be better to run the bulk of the script logic as a TACL macro with the TOP tool passing arguments to the macro.
Note: the tool has some dependencies which are detailed in the script.