[Info-vax] Basic C program in OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

kevinparker124 at gmail.com wrote 2013-02-18 12:40:
> On Monday, 18 February 2013 16:47:38 UTC+5:30, Jan-Erik Soderholm  wrote:
>> kevinparker124 at gmail.com wrote 2013-02-18 11:32:
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>>> That is fine...I have the code but don't know where to type-in
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>>> I tried it by doing following steps, please let me know if I am wrong:
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>>> $ EDIT/TPU HELLO.C
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>>> I am getting error like "could not find"
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>> That is not a C-specific issue as such.
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>> You do seem to have a bunch of other "problems" besides
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>> of the C specific ones. What are you actualy doing?
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>> Is this a commercial/professional environment?
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>> Or as a plain hobbyist?
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>> For questions specific to C see:
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>> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/commercial/c/index_alpha.html
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>> "The User's Guide [pdf] explains how to develop and debug C programs
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>> on OpenVMS systems, and provides information about OpenVMS features
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>> and tools that work with the compiler."
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>> For VMS quesstions, see:
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>> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os84_index.html
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>> In particular :
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>> "OpenVMS User's Manual"
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>> "HP OpenVMS Linker Utility Manual"
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>> "HP OpenVMS Programming Concepts Manual"
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>> And others depending on what your C-code is actualy doing.
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>> $ create def.c
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>> #include <stdio>
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>> main()
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>> {
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>>      int c = 3;
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>>      int d = 4;
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>>      int e;
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>>      e = c + d;
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>>      printf("%d\n", e);
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>> } Exit
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>> $ cc def
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>> $ link def
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>> $ run def
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>> 7
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>> $
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> Thanks a lot...its working fine now.
>

Note that "create" is just a quich way to create a text file
from the command prompt. For more then a few lines you want
to use one of the editors, of course. Personaly I use EDT,
never has come around to learn TPU...