[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

Chris Townley news at cct-net.co.uk
Fri Jul 14 19:36:37 EDT 2023


On 14/07/2023 22:30, gah4 wrote:
> On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 12:44:48 PM UTC-7, Chris Townley wrote:
> 
> (snip regarding busybox)
> 
>> But does it run under OpenVMS?
>   
>   It is supposed to be able to port to any system running gcc.
> 
> I don't see on the list that anyone has tried OpenVMS.
> 
> There are some applets (that is what they call them) that are OS specific,
> and so won't work.
> 
> Reminds me of, years ago, porting gnu-utils to OS/2 and finding that
> tail -f works.  I don't know if tail -f is supposed to work on VMS, though.
> 
> The main target is embedded Linux, especially where the whole system
> is in flash memory.

But type/tail does ISTR

-- 
Chris




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