[Info-vax] C... the only winning move is not to play...

[JohnF]

VAXman- wrote:
> I've been at SUPERVISOR mode in a lot of my time working on
> a DCL debugger I've mentioned here a few times.

If you don't mind me beating a dead horse (I seem to have
run out of little puppies to kick), I think dcl is what
all those str$functions we discussed were really written
for. That is, but for digital's desire to provide string
manipulation in dcl, they never would have bothered with
that str$library. The C headers and stuff were more of an
afterthought, i.e., as long as the library's there, might
as well let C link it. But all other things equal, when
writing C you're better advised to use standard C stuff
if possible.

> I'd been called away from that in recent
> weeks to work on RMS CDC (EXEC mode), coded an Excel spreadsheet generator
> (USER mode) for a client that writes their app in COBOL (on OpenVMS), made
> new Postscript forms and logos artwork (not really OpeNVMS but used there),
> and setup and configured a *new* Itegrity Blade cluster even though nobody
> has been buying Itegrity for OpenVMS as per HP's "suggestion".

Wow, you've got my head swimming with that "mixed metaphor".
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )