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In article <DRjEQc1+ENFR at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <4b57add4$0$275$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> 
>> You can try and call the standard socket functions
>> directly from Fortran.
>
>   We actually did that on a system where the programmer couldn't figure
>   out the $QIO documentation for UCX.  I showed him how to translate
>   the C header file info into VAX Fortran structures (ANSI Fortran
>   didn't yet have structures back then), and pass arguements by value
>   and such.  We did have to code some calls to socket routine X as
>   DECC$X.

A programmer that can't read the $QIO programming interface should NOT,
IMHO, be programming on VMS.  Send them off with their own TRS-80 and a
BASIC interpetter and a cassette interface until they appreciate what a
wonderful environment they had in VMS.


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