FreeTDS under VMS (changes suggestion)

Ruslan R. Laishev Laishev at SMTP.DeltaTel.RU
Sun Nov 19 19:20:14 EST 2000


James,
	VMS Diff is not enough?

> However, I'm not convinced from your posting that the patch should even
> be considered ... why would we want to change FreeTDS to provide support
> for the OpenVMS $FAO system call?  What is it you are trying to fix?
	I have tried to fix a legacy programming practic:using of a ASCIZ instead of ASCIC
and something like it represetntation of the ASCII string.

> Doesn't it work for everybody else already?
	Yes. It will allow to use printf's specification like %.*s for example, it allow to
help formating output w/o overhead caused by using strlen() for computing of a string
length.

>  If it doesn't work easily
> for OpenVMS users, why can't you create an OpenVMS abstraction layer?
	For what?
	It need to add length for an every string parameter and it's all.
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