MK> CS> VMS is a *nix varient .

MK>Are you sure about that?  Didn't seem the same to me.
MK>Besides VMS is (was?) big endian whereas all Unices I've
MK>run across are little endian, including Linux.

I'll have to do a web search but I recall it was a BSD varient, and it
was never 'little-endian' stuff, always mainframe oriented.

MK>then it is for most.  Also my recollections of VAX/VMS
MK>helped ease any apprehensions I may have had at the time.

Not to mention would have made the littler later *nix stuff easier for
you.
           xxcarol

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