[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[John Reagan]

"Neil Rieck"  wrote in message 
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>I fully agree! It's all just software after all. IIRC, VMS strings are
>similar to (but not identical to) Pascal strings so any system
>supporting Pascal can be made to support VMS strings.

There is no standard Pascal "string".  Borland had a leading byte-count as 
well as Pchar which is a null-terminated string, VMS Pascal's VARYING OF 
CHAR uses a leading word-count, etc.   The Extended Pascal standard has 
variable length strings, but it does not specify the implementation only the 
external behavior.