VMS C & records in files

[Rick Ward]

[ article about difficulties with reading records in C on VMS ]

On a related note, why couldn't Digital have made it easier to call system
functions from C.  This difficulty alone makes C unusable on VMS, at least 
in my opinion :(.  The problem is that you have to allocate and build 
structures describing each variable you want to pass to a system routine.
YUCK!

Rick
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