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Article #265VAX C/VMS questions
From: Tom Cunningham
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1986 16:21
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1986 16:21
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Some questions about VMS and VAX C:
1) Is there an equivalent of /dev/null ("bit bucket") on VMS?
2) Are there any routines available written in C that facilitate
wildcard filename expansion from within a program running under
VMS? I have a case where the C program is invoked from DCL as
a foreign command; thus no automatic wildcard expansion is done.
3) I have a C program that was developed in a PC-DOS/Unix environment.
I can "install" it on VMS as a foreign command and get access to
command line arguments via argv (without DCL wildcard expansion,
as stated above). My assumption has been that to install the
program in a more conventional way, I must use the Command Definition
Utility to specify command line parameters and attributes, and then
use RTL CLI$ calls to access the arguments, bypassing argc and argv.
Is this assumption correct?
Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this. I have tried to mail
to the mod.computers.vax moderator, without success. Thanks for any
help you can give.
Tom Cunningham "Good, fast, cheap -- select two."
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