[Info-vax] modern LaTeX on VMS (Alpha)

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <CICdndyzasAz-UbTnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d at posted.localnet>, Robert
Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes: 

> What is ODS-2 clean?  

See another post from me in this thread.

> I don't think that LaTeX depends on file name case
> (or else it is pushed into the low-level FS code).  LaTeX does not
> tolerate file names with spaces, which I know that VMS does not tolerate
> either (file names with spaces are a hassle under Linux in CLI usage and
> seem to be excessively favored in the mess-windows world).  None of the
> LaTeX system expects file names with more than one dot (eg x.foo.y), or
> even extensions of more then three letters (eg .tex, .ltx, .fmt, .sty,
> .cls, .dvi, .ps, .pdf, .mf, etc.).  AFAIK, LaTeX plays very nicely with
> VMS. It did way back when and I suspect it still does.

Probably, it is compatible with ODS-2 since a lot of development was 
done there.  Also, it is a very portable program in general, so needs to 
stick to the most common conventions.