VMS C & records in files

[Ed Bates: Joshua is my son's name.]

In article <644 at eplrx7.UUCP>, ward at eplrx7.UUCP (Rick Ward) writes:
> 
> [ 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!

It doesn't seem like such a difficult thing to create an include file with most
of the structures used by system services that you would need.  Granted, this is
more than you would need to do with Unix, but it would save the need for re-
creating this information each time you needed it.

-- Ed