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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 23-01-2010 07:39, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.

It may be more realistic that they run with their Windows or Linux
PC and use an IDE with 1.5 GB RAM as recommended just for the IDE.
And they may like the VMS compilers and the VMS calling standard,
but they will not be impressed by the environment.

Arne