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

[Dave Froble]

On 7/15/2023 8:29 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 16/07/2023 01:20, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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
>
> But will Multinet and/or TCPWare make it to X86?
>

If it is mostly a re-compile and link, then it should happen.  Don't know.

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