As of VMS 5.4, the behaviour of the MACRO assembler has changed with respect
to the output of .PRINT commands.
Formerly, it would output to SYS$ERROR, while with VMS 5.4, it outputs to
SYS$OUTPUT .

This implies that the procedures (distributed on INFO-VAX a few times already)
which generate "#include" files from LIB.MLB and similar assembler libraries
are broken.

Workaround: replace the line (shown here for case of .H files)

$ define/user SYS$ERROR 'p1'.H

        by (conditional code for downward compatibility)

$ vmsv = f$element(0,".",f$getsyi("version"))   ! major version ...
$ vmsv = f$extract(1,f$length(vmsv)-1,vmsv)     ! ... w/o initial letter
$ vmsv2 = f$element(1,".",f$getsyi("version"))  ! minor version
$ new_macro = (vmsv.eqs."5" .and. vmsv2 .ges."4") .or. vmsv.gts."5"
$ if .not.new_macro then -
        define/user SYS$ERROR 'p1'.H    ! pre-5.4 MACRO puts .PRINT output here
$ if new_macro then -
        create 'p1'.H
$ if new_macro then -
        define/user SYS$OUTPUT 'p1'.H   ! 5.4 MACRO puts .PRINT output here
$ if new_macro then -
        define/user SYS$ERROR  NL:


Hope it helps (it did for me)

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