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What’s up with VOS structured files and POSIX programs?
If you have ever tried to use POSIX-based programs to process VOS structured files, you may have encountered some restrictions or seen some behavior that you didn’t understand. In this post I will try to explain what’s going on.
New ports of open-source packages (readline, gnutls, lynx, et al)
I have recently ported several new or updated open-source packages to OpenVOS Release 17.0. They are now available on the VOS anonymous ftp site, at the following URL: ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/v-series/v-series.html.
Services file not just for server processes
With the trend away from running telnetd and FTPD and toward running SSHD many system administrators are removing the “telnet” and “FTP” service lines from the >system>stcp>services file. #Name port Service Alias # ftpdata 20/tcp ftp 21/tcp ftpd telnet 23/tcp telnetd smtp 25/tcp bootps 67/udp bootpd bootpc 68/udp bootp . . . . . . [...]
The Lazy Way to Edit a Lot of Files
While implementing a change to the OpenVOS kernel, I found myself faced with the task of modifying about 150 files. This meant reserving them in the source control system, updating the copyright, adding a modification history line, and making the code change (which was to add a #include pre-processor statement. I knew that if I simply started doing this work [...]
