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From: Chris Tenaglia - 257-8765 <[e-mail]>
Subject: VMS executables
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VMS icon has some compatibility problems since the X-stuff was added.
If you have the source and a c compiler you can edit

[icon.src.h]config.h

and there's an xwindows switch you can change and then rebuild the
package. But there is another problem with vms icon. There is at
least one byte value it can't write. Here's a sample...

procedure main()
  xff := char(255)  # or \377 or \xff or string(&cset)[-1]
  write(xff)
  end

I've found that you have to go back to Icon V8.6 to get that to run.
Otherwise you get some I/O error. Does the Icon Project still have
it? Will it be fixed in Icon V9? I could try to FTP my V8.6 (bins),
but I'm not sure what the procedure is to pack these and put them
the anon ftp area there. It would be kinder to bandwidth to have  the
icon project to place the older version out there too. V8.10 is ok
for X if you don't need to write X'FF'. Anyone else having similar
problems? I'm using VMS 5.5.

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