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Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 11:36:44 -0600
To: Free-VMS@lp.se
From: Kevin Handy <kth@srv.net>
Subject: Re: FreeVMS Project - Future?
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At 09:48 AM 5/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, I'm pretty much maintaining it more or less as much as I ever
>was, which is to say not all _that_ actively.  If you submit a nicely
>packaged patch I might add it my web page (as an unofficial patch,
>probably; for one thing I have no current plans to make another
>release soon).
>
>Or better yet, add such a patch to your own web page.
>
>Note that I want VMSBACKUP to continue to be a portable program, which
>I guess is what you had in mind by saying that starlet would be in
>#ifdef's.  The goal, of course, should be that starlet is good enough
>so that dclmain.c and all the other VMS stuff works with starlet, but
>I realize that we aren't there yet.

I have made several hacks on the vmsbackup routine, and I'm
sending you a copy of what I've got (originally based upon
vmsbackup4-1.zip) [sending it as an attachment to this message]

Some of the changes include:

        Can handle dates when used with the starlet library.
        More information displayed with the -F flag.
        Doesn't die when given a RSTS/E backup.
        Can use 'getopt_long'.
        Several minor bug fixes.

I'll let you have all these changes to merge into the 'official'
version if you want them. For some reason, I had to rewrite the
'Makefile' because I couldn't get it to even start gcc properly
(and I never figured out why, but it somehow passed returns as
part of the file name). My makefile isn't much different from
the original, but does work for me.

