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

[David Froble]

Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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?
> 

I'm a trouble maker ????

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