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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:23:50 MST
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:18:08 -0600
To: kehandley@amherst.edu, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
From: Chris Tenaglia <cdt@post.its.mcw.edu>
Subject: Re: Icon for Alpha VMS?
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I found nothing in existance. So I downloaded the sources
to an alpha vms workstation and tried recompiling
it for a couple days. While I am a wiz at icon programming
my C skills are novice at best, so I gave up that path.
I couldn't couldn't do the vest (binary->binary translation)
either, because there are some incompatible system calls
and libraries between them. There are also 2 different file
systems for vms now. The original rms (slow and reliable)
and a newer spiralog (faster than unix and NT). So I don't
think this port is trivial by any stretch of the imagination.
The VMS versions after V8.6 could not read or write
\xff alias char(255) which made some binary file manipulations
impossible. I could use Icon for alpha too. Sure the DCL
runs faster, but the code is so much uglier and verbose.
Chris.
At 09:37 PM 3/18/97 GMT, kehandley@amherst.edu wrote:
>Hello, I checked the 1994-1996 archives of this list and could find no
>help, so now I ask: Has anyone gotten Icon Version 8 or above to work
>on an Alpha running VMS? I don't need any X-Windows stuff. I would
>appreciate any help.
>
>Keith Handley, Amherst College Academic Computer Center
>kehandley@amherst.edu
>
>
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