Re: The joy of VAX

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:43:13 +0100, Pancho wrote:

Ah! there we have the Internet and a Search engine. :-)

My knowledge of those documents comes from having actual paper copies
while using actual physical machines, back in the day when these systems
were new.

I'm not sure if I had that book or not. It looks like it is heavily
orientated to calling VMS system services from C. I think my problem was
calling C from Pascal. The application was Pascal based.

Pascal should have been easier. VAX Pascal (V2 and later) had all kinds of
elaborate facilities (nonstandard, of course) for low-level interfacing to
the system and to other languages, controlling storage layout in the
linker etc. It was a full-on systems programming language and no mistake.

Again, I know all this from first-hand experience.