[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <pk7pe6$c30$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy at gfsys.co.uk> writes:
> 
> One of the reasons why unix and C became so popular in the early days
> is because the C library provides platform independent access to i/o,
> storage and a shed load of other functions. If I write a c program for
> any flavour of unix, or linux and don't try to be too clever, it will
> almost always compile and run on anything else. 

   You obvioulsy haven't done enough with ioctl().  Or am I being "too
   clever"?

   Years ago, I found I had to get into ioctl() just to identify the contents
   of a magtape.