OpenVMS woes

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I don't know if you're interested, but the HP testdrive program has a
few OpenVMS machines setup, if you just need access to an OpenVMS box to
play on.

www.testdrive.hp.com

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:40 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: OpenVMS woes

Hi,

In message "Re: OpenVMS woes" > on Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:41:27 +0900, Renald Buter > <buter@cwts.leidenuniv.nl> writes:

>But unfortunately, some very basic stuff does not seem to work, like
>for
>example:
>
> open 'tmpdir'
> p File.join(tmpdir, "file.dat")
>
>will output:
>
> "/tmp/file.dat"
>
>which is clearly *not* what I want...

That means either

  * the author (me) has zero knowledge about OpenVMS
  * the OpenVMS port is fairly incomplete

or both. Any help is welcome always.

              matz.

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I recall back in the mid-90's supporting some DEC VAX OpenVMS servers
that we were using as a part of cellular Over the Air Activations. The
contractors left the project and literally no one in the Corporate IT
group was familiar with OpenVMS. I picked up a book and after a couple
of weeks added VAX Admin to my list of (uncompensated) titles. Nothing
personal, but OpenVMS sure seemed ugly from what I recall. It was
stable but seemed like it was out of the Stone Age. Of course that was
version 6.1 or something...