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From: stew%lhasa.UUCP@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU
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Subject: Re: Need Help with VAX/VMS C
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 10:56:00 EST
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Your problem is with string descriptors.  "Quoted Strings" in C are just
an address of an array of bytes, terminated by zero.  However, the VMS
library routines expect strings to be passed by descriptor.  See Section
9.4 of "Programming in VAX-11 C" for examples.

Stew