Path: utzoo!attcan!sobeco!mfp
From: mfp@sobeco.UUCP (Mark F. Proudman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Terminal Control (ioctl) on VMS
Keywords: VMS,UNIX,ioctl,terminal
Message-ID: <316@sobeco.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 19:30:31 GMT
Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada
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I now have a total of 3 days of painful experience with VMS... I am trying
to port a curses menu handler that I wrote under system V.  Can someone
suggest a good book on how VMS terminal control (and serial lines generally)
work, preferably one including programming examples?  Is there a manual 
available from DEC which is at all comparable to the UNIX programming guide?
I have the VMS Run time Library reference manual; but I need more of an idiot's
hand-held tour of the SMG$ routines.

I have seen some berkeley uucp code with #ifdef VMS's in it, and strange calls
to ioctl() with 8 or 9 arguments.  Is this for real?  The code I saw had been
hacked by many...

Thanks for any help.

Mark Proudman	uunet!attcan!sobeco!mfp
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