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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 7/15/23 7:20 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 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. 

As far as I know there is no reason to use it if you have a CRTL from
recent decades. Not sure what's happening with TCP/IP Services 6.x as
there will surely be API updates which could then differ again from
third-party stacks.