[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <4ae8ddfb$0$276$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <4ae79c4e$0$282$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>> JF Mezei wrote:
>>>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>>>> We have managed to get along without fork() for about thirty
>>>>>>> years.
>>>>> I've programmed for for VMS VAX and Alpha for about thirty-five years 
>>>>> without missing fork() in the slightest.  YMMV
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course I started my career ca. 1966 with SDS 900 series machines 
>>>>> which ran a long forgotten O/S and used a long forgotten command 
>>>>> language. Unix was still imprisoned at Bell Laboratories and Berkeley. 
>>>>>  From that I moved to IBM mainframe.  None of these systems offered or 
>>>>> needed fork() or vfork().
>>>> AFAIK there are no programming task that requires fork.
>>>>
>>>> But porting code using fork to a system with no fork is
>>>> often a lot of work.
>>> But porting code using ASTs to a system with no ASTs is
>>> often a lot of work.
>> Yes. But that does not seem to be problem in this case.
> 
> You've completely missed the point.
> 

Then perhaps the point was not clearly made!