[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[John E. Malmberg]

On 5/29/2018 11:16 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
>> On 2018-05-29, Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>>> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>>
>>>> BTW, has anyone asked you if TECO is going to be available on x86-64 ? :-)
>>>
>>> A major fan of TECO works for VSI and he will be sure it's in X86...
> 
>> That editor has now been around in one form or the other since the
>> early 1960s - I wonder how much longer it will be around for ? :-)
> 
> Apparently that's the reason why the TECO code is so ugly. It's been
> ported from one machine to another, possibly by a conversion program in
> some cases, and by the time it made it to VAX the code was so ugly the
> Alpha Macro-32 compiler wouldn't accept it, and nobody would (could?)
> fix the code so that it would.  (It's VESTed on Alpha and the VESTed
> Alpha code is AESTed on Itanic)

The TECO/IA64 port has bugs.  It crashes for me when I try to use it.

Someone gave me a pointer to a TECO implementation that works on IA64, 
but I have misplaced it.

I do not know how compatible C TECO was to the VMS supplied TECO.  Is 
there a validation test?

The last TECO implementation on the DecSYSTEM 10 I used was a compiler 
so you could use it to make executable images.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work