[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <716f4e62-ce1d-4ec5-8577-09861988e162 at googlegroups.com>,
johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes: 

> I guess you weren't a fan of VMS POSIX then?
> 
> If it had lasted, if the customers who said they wanted open standards
> had walked the walk as well as talked the talk, many of the "porting"
> and "tools" issues being discussed round here would have been non-issues.

There are lies, damn lies, and open systems.  :-)

The problem with posix was that it was too minimal.  It obviously didn't 
offer proper compatibility with many real-world unix applications, 
otherwise the porting issues wouldn't exist, as you point out.

Having said that, sometimes a proper VMS port is better than running 
something in compatibility mode.  Take ZIP and UNZIP, for example.  I 
like a proper HELP file, a CLD interface, etc.  The point is that the 
input and output files are compatible with other systems, which is the 
case here.