[Info-vax] Help wanted : Porting code from Linux to VMS

[johnson.eric at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 3:44:20 PM UTC-5, Marc Van Dyck wrote:

> It'll basically consist of porting C code written for a linux platform
> to OpenVMS. And it won't be the trivial 'copy the code and recompile'
> job :

Why? If you don't do it - what happens?

> 2) I will port the code from C to Pascal, which is the only language I
> feel comfortable with. Not afraid by that one, have done it several
> times already.

If you don't feel comfortable with C - then it's going to be 
hard to port something you can't read. Seems smarter to at 
least learn C.

> 3) The code contains a good dose of TCP/IP programming. And there I'm
> somewhat lost, because I never touched that in the past. So I'd
> appreciate a bit of help to get me started...

You will be happier if you can first master C and TCP/IP on Linux
first, then have a go at migrating that to VMS.

EJ