Re: Alternate file types for RUN ?

JF Mezei wrote:
Stephen Hoffman wrote:
Once the executable (main) image is activated, I would assume you
want everything else downstream to select that same architecture, right?

OK, point taken. While statically linked images would be fine
(chocolate.EXE_ALPHA be no different from chocolate.exe running on an
alpha and invoke normal alpha shareable images without problem, BUT there would be an issue with LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL since the application
would then need to be aware that the shareable images might not be all
.EXE since you may have directories containing both alpha and vax
shareable images with same filename and different extension.

In defining your problem, you've endorsed the solution suggested by so many. Separate directories. Use architechure type to define the logicals on the 'local' system.

Or ask nicely for the source code, and port it all to x86-64 and fix
it or extend it for yourself for your specific needs.

Do I detect an elevated level of sarcasm directed at JF, now that being 'officially HP' is no longer an issue?

Is this an official announcement that VMS is being retired and open
sourced so we can continue its development ?

Since Steve doesn't work for HP anymore, from what I've seen posted, why would you ask him about anything 'official'?

:-)

The file extensions are, well, an ugly
and weak and primitive solution to the basic problem of identifying the
particular file contents, after all.


File extensions may be an old concept, but they make things much
simpler. If you remove the file extension, you need to change the
dirtectory listing to also list the file type stored in some metadata.
So is there really a difference ?


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