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- From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: Help a student in distress....
- Message-ID: <0096642B.AD273E80.32281@nscvax.princeton.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:48:45 GMT
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- Peter O'Brien <9120092@ul.ie> writes:
- >
- >Call me a buthead but I've got a few rather simplistic questions to
-
- Ok. :-)
-
- >pose to the great VMS minds out there.
- >(1) How come DEC manuals have most of their examples in Fortran?
-
- Because Fortran is still the closest thing to a "universal"
- language? Imagine the trouble and expense to create and publish examples
- in ADA, ALGOL, BASIC, BLISS, C, COBOL, CORAL, FORTRAN, JOVIAL, MODULA-2,
- Pascal, SAIL, etc.
-
- >
- >(2) In DEC's RMS who does the FAB and the RAB work, is it much different
- > from the FAT in Messy Dos (TM) ?
-
- The FAB and RAB bear little or no relation to the FAT in MS-DOS.
- The FAB and the RAB are data structures required by the SYS$OPEN and
- SYS$CONNECT routines. They are created and filled in by programmer or by a
- language RTL; e.g. Fortran OPEN or C fopen(). Most people never have to
- deal with them except indirectly, by specifying parameters in the OPEN.
-
- >
- >and more importantly as I require this information soon
- >(3) Does anybody have any working examples of SMG's used in Cobol (cough cough)?
- > In particular SMG$CREATE_MENU. I would really appreciate this as the
- > VMS ver 3 manuals that are available to me don't mention a thing
- > about it. I know about it 'cause it's in the Ver 5.? help facility.
- >
-
- I'd strongly advise the purchase of the necessary manuals. It is
- difficult or impossible to do any serious programming without access to a
- more or less current set of manuals. There may be someone out there who
- is willing to admit to using COBOL, and who has some example code but I
- wouldn't count on it. You will be very lucky to find someone with examples
- in Fortran :-).
-
- If you require the information soon, it would have been wise to
- have requested it long ago!
-
-
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- * Richard B. Gilbert *
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