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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
Date: 9 May 1996 22:31:35 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <4mtkh4$dhh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> In article <4mtepd$gne@web.nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >In article <4mt9lm$32f@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
> >Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >> Evidently you have no real experiences with OpenVMS.
> >I do, though.
> >It's a competant enough operating system, but it's not open in any
> >meaningful way.
> Please, send this unfounded assertion ("not open in any meaningful way")
> to comp.os.vms. We can discuss it there.
No.
When OpenVMS came out, with its POSIX shell and libraries, we attempted to
take advantage of this and port our vertical market application to VMS. Not
only was this basically impossible, due to the lack of functionality in the
shell, but in addition it was impossible to write stubs to call the VMS
runtime to make up for its shortcomings because you couldn't *do* that from
POSIX applications! So, the Open in OpenVMS refers to a marketing strategy...
not to any honest effort to provide a standards based environment.
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