[Info-vax] Access to HP OpenVMS Patches...

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2013-12-31 12:09:
> In article <52c1fd49$0$22400$c3e8da3$f6268168 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>
>>> The MAIL rewrite into C happened back at OpenVMS V7.0.  Long before the
>>> Itanium port.
>>
>> Did this correspond to the setting up of callable mail interface ? Or
>> did the supporting routines exist way before the rewrite ?
>
> I'm pretty sure the callable interface was around long before the
> (first) rewrite.
>

(Maybe this was sent multiple times...)

From: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/freeware/mail/freeware_readme.txt :

 > MAIL, Programming, Joe Meadows's Callable MAIL Examples
 >
 > Joe Meadows's Callable MAIL Examples
 > (Compiled with VAX C v3.2, linked under VMS v5.5-2)

And from a file in the kit:

 > New MAIL Utility Routines.
 > VMS Version 5.0 includes a new callable MAIL interface.


Jan-Erik.