[Info-vax] Making the CRTL version dependency information useful

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/14/2018 12:13 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 01/14/2018 11:06 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/14/2018 10:56 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 01/14/2018 05:36 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> I've seen the later messages about DECC not being the same as VAX C,
>>>> but just for completion, here are the list of RTLs from VAX/VMS 4.6:
>>>>
>>>> $ dir sys$library:*rtl*
>>>>
>>>> Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB]
>>>>
>>>> ADARTL.EXE;1        BASRTL.EXE;1        BASRTL2.EXE;1       
>>>> COBRTL.EXE;1
>>>> FORRTL.EXE;1        LIBRTL.EXE;1        LIBRTL2.EXE;1       
>>>> MTHRTL.EXE;1
>>>> PASRTL.EXE;1        PLIRTL.EXE;1        RPGRTL.EXE;1        
>>>> SCNRTL.EXE;1
>>>> UVMTHRTL.EXE;1      VAXCRTL.EXE;2       VAXCRTL.JNL;1 VAXCRTL.OLB;1
>>>> VAXCRTLG.EXE;2      VAXCRTLG.JNL;1      VAXCRTLG.OLB;1      
>>>> VMSRTL.EXE;1
>>>>
>>>> Total of 20 files.
>>>>
>>>> And here is the same list from VAX/VMS V4.0:
>>>>
>>>> $ dir sys$library:*rtl*
>>>>
>>>> Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB]
>>>>
>>>> BASRTL.EXE;1        BASRTL2.EXE;1       COBRTL.EXE;1        
>>>> FORRTL.EXE;1
>>>> LIBRTL.EXE;1        LIBRTL2.EXE;1       MTHRTL.EXE;1        
>>>> PASRTL.EXE;1
>>>> PLIRTL.EXE;1        RPGRTL.EXE;1        VMSRTL.EXE;1
>>>>
>>>> Total of 11 files.
>>>>
>>>> And finally, the same list from VAX/VMS V3.7:
>>>>
>>>> $ dir sys$library:*rtl*
>>>>
>>>> Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSLIB]
>>>>
>>>> PASRTL.EXE;1        PLIRTL.EXE;3        RTLVECTOR.OBJ;1     
>>>> VMSRTL.EXE;3
>>>>
>>>> Total of 4 files.
>>>
>>> I thought PL1 was a third party product from Kednos?
>>
>> For VMS VAX 3.7/4.0/4.6??
> 
> For any of them.  I was not aware that DEC/COMPAQ/HP ever did a VMS
> version of PL1.

I have never really used PL/I myself, so I have not paid
that much attention to PL/I.

But as I recall it then back in the those days it was a DEC
compiler - or at least branded as such.

I assumed that PL/I just like so much else got sold off in the
Bob Palmer era.

And either picked up by Kednos at that time or picked
up by somebody later selling it to Kednos.

But maybe someone more familiar with PL/I can
enlighten me.

Arne