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setlocale() return does not survive trip through the environment

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by craigberry » Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:25 pm » in Programming for OpenVMS » C/C++

The standard for setlocale() says the return value can be passed in as the second argument in a subsequent call. It also says that if you specify an...

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Any standard header definition for table 5.17 in Calling Standard?

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by jonesd61@pobox.com » Thu Mar 26, 2026 7:46 pm » in Programming for OpenVMS » C/C++

I wrote some encapsulation code to fix a program that broke due to changes in how stdarg.h handles the va_list object. Is there a system header file...

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NFS Locking Issues after installing TCPIP V6.0-30

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by thedaz » Sat Mar 28, 2026 7:00 am » in OpenVMS System Management » Networking

We have an issue with transferring files over NFS since moving from TCPIP V5.7-13ECO5X to V6.0-30

Files look to transfer OK from a remote system...

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Kevin Duffy

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by m_detommaso » Sat Mar 28, 2026 3:56 am » in Software and Layered Products » Others

I was very saddened to hear about Kevin’s passing. His contributions to the RDB and DBMS community were significant and widely appreciated.

My...

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%RMS-F-BUG, fatal RMS condition (FFFFFFFA), process deleted

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by mgdaniel » Sat Feb 21, 2026 8:57 pm » in OpenVMS V9.x » x86 Porting

The (FFFFFFFA) is a meaningless status value.

No process (AFAICT) is deleted, certainly not the reporting process. The full OPCOM message is...
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Fresh Virtualbox installation fails to boot

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by bobrg » Wed Mar 25, 2026 10:18 am » in OpenVMS V9.x » Field Test

Hello,
I am new in this forum, hopefully I am posting in the right place.
I am a retired Linux sysadmin, having begun with VAX VMS when I was young....

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EDIT/TPU/INTERFACE=MOTIF does not work on x86

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by nms » Sun Mar 22, 2026 2:35 pm » in VMS Software Inc. » General OpenVMS Questions

On all my systems (x86, Integrity and Alpha) I use the following symbol to define my editor:

E*DIT ==...

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mktime() doesn't set time zone and offset

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by craigberry » Mon Mar 23, 2026 5:57 pm » in Programming for OpenVMS » C/C++

The standard for mktime() says, Upon successful completion, the members of the structure shall be set to the values that would be returned by a call...

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C++ and long

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by arne_v » Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:52 pm » in Programming for OpenVMS » C/C++

Everybody knows that VMS x86-64 C++ has two known portability issues. Default pointer size is 64 bit and long is 64 bit.

Pointer size can be changed...

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CXXFIXUP not working

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by ndcsupport » Thu Mar 19, 2026 4:36 pm » in OpenVMS System Management » Installation and Configuration

CXXFIXUP isn't working as expected. I get:

x> prod show prod cxx
------------------------------------ ----------- ---------
PRODUCT KIT TYPE STATE...

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