Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!eplrx7!ward
From: ward@eplrx7.UUCP (Rick Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: VMS C  &  records in files
Summary: VMS C and system calls
Message-ID: <644@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 88 15:52:25 GMT
References: <196@rna.UUCP> <6671@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1609@edison.GE.COM>
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[ article about difficulties with reading records in C on VMS ]

On a related note, why couldn't Digital have made it easier to call system
functions from C.  This difficulty alone makes C unusable on VMS, at least 
in my opinion :(.  The problem is that you have to allocate and build 
structures describing each variable you want to pass to a system routine.
YUCK!

Rick
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