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From: tomc@oakhill.UUCP.UUCP
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Subject: VAX C/VMS questions
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Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 10:50:14 EDT
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Some questions about VMS and VAX C:

1)  Is there an equivalent of /dev/null ("bit bucket") on VMS?

2)  Are there any routines available written in C that facilitate
    wildcard filename expansion from within a program running under
    VMS?  I have a case where the C program is invoked from DCL as
    a foreign command; thus no automatic wildcard expansion is done.

3)  I have a C program that was developed in a PC-DOS/Unix environment.
    I can "install" it on VMS as a foreign command and get access to
    command line arguments via argv (without DCL wildcard expansion,
    as stated above).  My assumption has been that to install the
    program in a more conventional way, I must use the Command Definition
    Utility to specify command line parameters and attributes, and then
    use RTL CLI$ calls to access the arguments, bypassing argc and argv.
    Is this assumption correct?

Thanks for any help/information you can give.

Tom Cunningham     "Good, fast, cheap -- select two."
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