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> Lines: 15 [ 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 -- Rick Ward | E.I. Dupont Co. uunet!eplrx7!ward | Engineering Physics Lab (302) 695-7395 | Wilmington, Delaware 19898 | Mail Stop: E357-302