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What do you think about a cygOpenVMS ?
- From: lehrig at t-online dot de (Rainer Lehrig)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:56:58 +0200
- Subject: What do you think about a cygOpenVMS ?
Hi,
I have been working a long time on OpenVMS systems. These systems are very
stable and used frequently in process automation. But since Compaq took over
Digital equipment I have the feeling that it is not developed actively any
longer.
So what do you think about something like CYGWIN for OpenVMS ?
OpenVMS has:
- X-Windows
- at least a subset of posix calls
- pthread routines
- Socket library, telnet, ftp, rsh, samba ...
- A different filesystem ( device:[topdir.subdir]filename.extension;version )
I have ported QT2.2.0 to OpenVMS (this was really straigt forward)
The only problem was the different syntax in the filenames.
In principle "all" one would need, is a running bash with all the necessary
posix calls. In this case even KDE should not be a problem.
Is there some interest for a project called CYGVMS ???
Yours:
Rainer Lehrig
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