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From: milo@ndmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Porting to VMS-C
Message-ID: <199@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 16:55:59 EST
Article-I.D.: ndmath.199
Posted: Sat Mar 21 16:55:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 23:13:11 EST
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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I am about to undertake the porting of a large Unix program I wrote in C
to VMS-C.  I don't have any previous experience with VMS-C (although I have
worked with VAX/VMS before) so I would appreciate any comments from people who
might have ported applications from Unix-C to VMS-C.

The application I am moving uses very few system calls...the primary ones
are used to switch from normal to RAW mode and back, vanilla fork&exec calls
for loading up various utility programs and a few misc system calls for finding
tty names and file modification dates.  All file IO is done with unbuffered
read and write calls.

I'm trying to get a VMS-C manual so I can read up on it...but comments from
someone who has actually ported a program would be much more useful.

Thanks in advance...

Greg Corson
...seismo!iuvax!kangaro!milo