SMG$ Documentation

[Pat Rankin]

In newsgroup comp.lang.c, article <dbreece.660195289 at silver>,\
 dbreece at silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dave Breece) writes...
> Does anyone know if is there such a thing as VMS RTL documentation for
> SMG$ routines?

     I find this a rather strange question.  The command
|$ help rtl smg$
shows entries for over 100 subroutines.  If you're running VMS v4.x,
these may not have been present in the online help--I don't recall.
The first half of volume 5C of the programming doc set is devoted to SMG.

> Also, is there any public domain C source code
> available that uses the SMG$  routines?

     Some sample menu-oriented stuff was posted to vmsnet.sources a
couple of weeks ago.  It was in C.

     The 'curses' portion of the C Run-Time Library (VAXCRTL) is layered
on top of SMG.  You may find it easier to use than direct SMG calls, as
long as you don't need the extra functionality available.