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From: cabral@lll-crg.ARPA (Brian Cabral)
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Subject: Re:  stat routine for DEC C wanted
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 19:46:42 EST
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	Skip,
	  I have looked into that very problem and will have to
	eventually write one for the VMS version of the EMACS I
	am hacking on.  I suspect someone has written one for the
	emacs you have since emacs checks the status of a file at
	some point.  Stat can NOT be fully implemented by definition
	of the stat data structure which returns information about
	the inode which makes no since to VMS.  So what you needs to
	be done is a routine that only fills in the part that it can
	othereise either ignores the call or returns a warning error.
	Actually the routine doesn't seem to hard to write because
	RMS should provide most of the info like last access time etc.

	  If I was you I'd look thru the EMACS code to see if it calls
	stat and if there is hacked version there.  Also I might write
	Bruce Dawson(i think he's at CCA) since he almost certainly would
	know where you could get a routine such as stat for VMS.

							B.c.