[Info-vax] DCL crashing bug update

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-25, Volker Halle <volker_halle at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017 03:50:34 UTC+2 schrieb Simon Clubley:
>> .... I don't know if VAX or IA64 is also affected.
>
> OpenVMS VAX (V7.3) is not affected in the same way, as it gets %DCL-W-BUFOVF
> errors, when trying to create the SIMON_TEST.TMP file.
>

I installed a bare-bones VAX/VMS V7.3 system under SIMH and modified
the command procedure to work with VAX/VMS. VAX isn't affected due
to the following error:

$ reca/era
$ reca/input=simon_test.tmp
%RMS-W-RTB, 0 byte record too large for user's buffer
$ 

Simon.

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