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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Vax C Sucks Wind
Message-ID: <249@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 02:35:47 GMT
References: <8802220606.AA16924@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <244@wsccs.UUCP> <248@wsccs.UUCP>
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Summary: Wrongo

In article <248@wsccs.UUCP>, val@wsccs.UUCP (Val Kartchner) writes:
> In article <244@wsccs.UUCP>, terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry) writes:
> > 	Digital's C does not emulate UNIX.  If it does, it is pronounced
> > 'Eunuchs', as in casterated.  The only place I found even an attempt at
> > compatability was in resoloutin of filenames, and then only if you bought
> > DEC/Shell (an optional product). 
> 
>      On the contrary, VAX C does parse Unix (Pronounced eunuch and meaning
>      it too) filenames.  This requires no optional products, and no special
>      parameters to fopen().  Repeat: VMS parses Unix filenames without
>      anything special.

	Execept documentation, which only comes with DEC/Shell, still an
optional product.  Do you read docs, or simply ask Dave?

	Also, the parsing is ala' Ultrix, and I still maintain that Ultrix
is not real UNIX (my code files from real Berkely UNIX don't run EXACTLY the
same).


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