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Re: "Fixing a 41 year old bug in the SWTOOLS VOS SEDIT commmand..."
One thing I forgot to mention: The Software Tools need a Fortran compiler, but the VAX I maintain for work doesn’t have one, and since it is a work computer I can’t install one since you can’t get commercial licenses for software for VAX/VMS any more. So I compiled everything on another emulated VAX running on SIMH, did the debugging there, and moved the resulting fixed executable to the work VAX to use there.
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🐙 norayr [mod] · Jul 19 at 21:46:
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Fixing a 41 year old bug in the SWTOOLS VOS SEDIT commmand on VAX/VMS 5.5-2 — So, at work I maintain a VAX running VMS 5.5-2. That version of VMS was released in 1991... I've recently been using the Unix-like tools in the LBL Software Tools Virtual Operating System from the DECUS Languages & Tools tape from 1986. The SWTOOLS VOS is a portable reimplementation of many Unix style programs and library routines, inspired by Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools books, writen in a Ratfor, a...