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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 9.0 for VAX?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:21:05 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2010-02-10, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode@gmail.com> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
:
:> I'd be particularly interested in how "@ckvker f" works out (the "long
:> file" support option) on 32-bit VMS hardware.
:
: That's easy. It won't. In DECC$TYPES.H, all the
: _LARGEFILE stuff is conditional on "!defined(__VAX)". There
: is no C run-time support for large files on VAX, and I expect
: none in the future. I believe that ckvker.com ignores "F" on
: a VAX. A complaint could be added, but I believe that it's
: currently silent.
:
But in VMS, C-Kermit's file i/o routines (at least the ones used
for file transfer and for logs) are RMS, not C library, based.
So it might be just a question of the reporting -- file transfer
display, statistics, and thermometer. But I confess, I haven't
had time to look at the code.
- Frank