[TUHS] History of strncpy
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
tih at hamartun.priv.no
Fri Jan 25 04:31:57 AEST 2013
Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> writes:
> Ah yes, VAX C. You're right about that one. It had a completing
> different internal implementation of the FILE struct. While I
> supervised a team of VAX VMS programmers, that's one of the platforms
> I never dabbled in directly.
I ported C-TeX to VAX/VMS many years ago, and got a huge performance
increase when I swapped the built-in FILE interface to RMS stream files
for one I wrote myself, which explicitly did block I/O on RMS binary
files instead. That was a fun project. :)
-tih
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