Re: [OT] VMS ODS-5 filesystems, was: Re: Filenames in Ada

Simon Clubley wrote:

> In article <1132902735.252192.317840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "krischik" <krischik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> Well, does VMS still use Radix-50 for file names? (:-)) That's wise!
>>
>> Depends on the file system used. Amost all GNU/VMS tools demand an ODS5
>> file system which is supositly POSIX compliant.
>>
>> Well I would not know - we use ODS3 here :-( .
>>
>
> I think you mean ODS-2. :-) (ODS-3 is ISO 9660)
>
> If your site policies allow it, you could try one of the freeware
> container drivers such as LDDRIVER and create a ODS-5 volume within the
> container.

Tried that but could not quite get it to work.

I don't mind VMS - just some if the tools drive me insane - like that joke
of a command line shell which can't backspace over a line wrap. So I really
which for I had a GNU/VMS tool chain available.

At least I got a decent editor (vim) now.

Martin
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