info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (11/26/84)
From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki)
A followup on my two previous articles on a version of TAR to run on VMS.
The problem is one of licensing, not of linking or anything else. The C
run time library does not come with VMS, you get it as part of the
VAX-11 C distribution. Any code that uses the C run time library must
either go to a site that already has a C run time library license, or
DEC must be paid a OEM-type distribution fee.
Since my salesman is totally useless, (ie, there is no way around the
license mumbo-jumbo), I can only send TAR out if you can provide me with
either of the following:
o A UNIX license and a VAX-11 C license (or a C run time library
license). I'll send you tar.exe, the documentation, and the .obj
files.
o A UNIX source license. I'll send you the sources and let you
figure out how to compile the beast. If you also have a VAX-11 C
license, then I'll send the tar.exe.
Other articles mentioned the DEC Shell (a Bourne shell) and the
utilities that come with it, TAR included. While I didn't play with TAR
specifically, the package seems quite good, and very flexible. Now if it
only had job control like the C Shell... I think the list price is
something like $6K and our salesman says that it should be out shortly
after Version 4 (but as I said before, our salesman is useless)
Marty Sasaki
Havard University Science Center
sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}