[Info-vax] message communication (VMS <> PC)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 21-01-2010 12:12, Rob Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 at 20:28 -0500, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
>> You can use QIO(W) from your Fortran code.
>>
>> You can have your Fortran code call some C code
>> that uses standard socket code.
>>
>> You can try and call the standard socket functions
>> directly from Fortran.
>>
>> If you have a C compiler, then go for the second option. By
>> far the least complicated.
>
> Perhaps you should consider NETLIB from MadGoat. It provides all of the
> usual socket functions, but with a more familiar VMS-style interface. I
> think this was freeware, so look for it in the usual places. I see that
> NETLIB V2.4 was the FREEWARE_8 CD.

It is one of these things that should be tested to see how much
simpler the NETLIB API are compared to the C socket API.

Arne