[Info-vax] NETLIB V2.5 released for X86_64, AXP, and I64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/14/2023 2:10 PM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
> NETLIB is MadGoat Software's TCP/IP library routines. Software that uses 
> NETLIB can run on any of the supported TCP/IP stacks on OpenVMS without 
> having to worry about coding differences among the stacks. Products that 
> use NETLIB include MX, HGFTP, and NBS. There are probably others, but 
> I'm drawing a blank right now.

Wondering.

I remember back in the 90's where TCP/IP on VMS was a mess - many
flavors (DEC, Multinet, TCPWare, Wollongong, CMU) - they were
not fully compatible from a programming perspective (I remember
seeing lots of ifdef's in C code). NETLIB seemed to make a lot of sense.

But I am wondering whether it is still like that today. Only 2 vendors
with 3 products left. And I was sort of assuming that Multinet
and TCPWare had gotten a goal to be fully HP/VSI compatible from
a programming perspective and just focus on doing everything better.

Are there still compatibility problems writing code using socket API?

Are there still compatibility problems writing code using SYS$QIO(W)?

Or is NETLIB today more for those applications written against it
back in time?

Arne