[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Scott Dorsey]

Dirk Munk  <munk at home.nl> wrote:
> Scott Dorsey writes:
>>
>> Sheesh, just give me a standardized shared filesystem over IP, that I can
>> address from the command line.   With good performance.  I don't even care
>> what kind it is as long as it's standard and widely-compatible.
>
>How do you want to achieve that? VMS has file versions, Unix and Windows 
>don't. Do you want to abandon VMS file versions, or should Unix, Linux 
>and Windows learn hows to use file versions?

The way Multinet did it (making the file version part of the filename)
works pretty well.

>For Unix and Windows a file starts at point A and ends at point B, and 
>in between are bytes. If these files have record separators, then it 
>will be a <cr> for the one, and a <lf> for the other. VMS knows these 
>files as stream files, or files with an undefined contents. Normal VMS 
>files are structured, a concept completely unknown to Unix and Windows. 
>Cobol for instance needs structured files, so a Cobol compiler on Unix 
>or Windows has to define its own structured files, but Unix and Windows 
>will be completely unaware of that.

Take a look at how Multinet does that too.  These were solved problems decades
ago.
--scott


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