[Info-vax] ODS-5 specifications, was: Re: Does OpenVMS Use Unicode?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/14/16 5:17 PM, David Froble wrote:
> hb wrote:
>> The only documentation I know of are the "header" files. For C: FI5DEF,
>> FATDEF and DIRDEF in SYS$SHARE:SYS$LIB_C.TLB - but maybe I'm missing
>> one. And if you look at them, there is no big difference to FI2DEF or to
>> the previous versions of FATDEF and DIRDEF. With the header files and
>> McCoy's book you should be able to follow the "on disk structures".

> Just about every time I see something about character coding beyond
> Ascii, I see references to the C RTL.  So which is it, VMS supports this
> stuff, or the C RTL supports this stuff?

Since there is no mention of the CRTL anywhere in the post to which you
are responding, why bring it up?