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ok, i've installed 1.42 (from prep.ai.mit.edu) on my VAX/VMS 5.2
system and have been able to compile & run many programs.  thanks
mucho to the gnu folks & other helpers.

it seems that the functions i would expect to be included with a C
compiler have not come with GNU C, but instead the directions tell me
to link with the VAX C run-time library (VAXCRTL).  so, still ok, i
have an old version of the VAX C complier on the machine (VAX-11 C
2.3).

now, however, i see that there is a difference (bug?) in the VAXCRTL
function versus the function included in the DOS compiler that i am
busily converting from.  the function read() is supposed to read the
*exact* number of bytes (up to EOF), but the read() from VAXCRTL seems
to act more like fgets() and returns only the first *line* of the
file.

can anyone shed some light on (1) why the GNU compiler doesnt have
these intrinsic functions? if i didn't have the VAXCRTL would i be
SOL? (2) why my read() of 720 bytes from a 720 byte file returns only
the first 24 bytes (the first line)?

thanks.
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