This note is on DecuServe (eisner.decus.org) from Hoff in response to an issue I've encountered running an ODS-5 system disk on VMS 7-3.1
Note his comments about CRTL documentation, please :-( :-) (it's the good news and the bad news). Carl -----Original Message----- From: Carl Friedberg, Comet & Company 212 233-5470 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hoff on ODS-5 system disks and case issues <<< EISNER::DRA1:[NOTES$LIBRARY]VMS.NOTE;1 >>> -< VMS and bundled utilities >- ======================================================================== ======== Note 3323.2 VMS 7.3-1 ODS-5 System Disk 2 of 2 EISNER::HOFFMAN "Hoff; OpenVMS Engineering" 24 lines 12-NOV-2002 11:50 -< Read the Manuals, of Course :-) >- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- I've been running ODS-5 system disks since the middle of the field test for OpenVMS V7.3-1. By and large, the stuff works nicely. I've reported the PCSI lowercase filename problem, having encountered it late in the field test. RENAME is the workaround. Also noted is the ability of zip and other tools to unpack to lowercase filenames, which is entirely expected -- but can potentially confuse PCSI or other non-EFS/non-ODS-5 tools. If you are coding in C, you REALLY need to read about the C RTL in the OpenVMS V7.3-1 documentation -- this is the copy of the C RTL documentation that ships with the OpenVMS documentation and at the http://www.openvms.compaq.com/doc/ website, and not the (older) manual shipping with the C compiler and not the CRTL documentation at the /commercial/c/ part of the website. There are a variety of features enabled by logical name, etc. Again, you REALLY need to read the current CRTL documentation -- what you might assume about the CRTL is now potentially wrong, and is now definitely outdated. The full list of potential wrinkles is listed in the Guide to EFS (Extended File Specifications) manual in the OpenVMS documentation.
