[HECnet] Call for help to debug RTPAD.EXE on OpenVMS V8.3

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-05-20 21:51, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-05-20 21:47, G. wrote:
On Mon, 20 May 2013 17:20:22 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:

Port the Linux one to VMS?

Probably not something I'd recomment... :-)

Why not? I'm not a C expert at all (I mean I know almost nothing). Do you
think it would be unfeasible or overly clumsy? I wonder if there is
something
useful in the freeware or DECUS tapes... But it may took ages to find
it. :|

Well, first of all, the API as well as some basic paradigms are rather
different in Linux than in VMS. Porting anything non-trivial from Unix
to VMS often is headaches.

Second, while I have not looked at xterm/rterm specifically, I have had
big issues with DECnet applications in Linux in the past. They seem to
work fairly ok against VMS systems, but almost all have failed miserably
when I have tried them against an RSX system.

cterm/rterm, not xterm. :-)

	Johnny

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