Posts: 9 Location: Virginia Piedmont Joined: 06.02.08
Posted on September 11 2008 06:38
Do any of you use gawk frequently on VMS?
Over the last several years I've used it a great deal and have done some small tinkering with the sources now and then, mostly with regard to stuff in the [.vms] directory of the distribution.
I've written a couple of extensions for gawk v3.1.5 and .6 to enable the use of sys$getsyi and sys$getuai (maybe also sys$getjpi--I can't remember right now and it's all at home, not here at work).
My goal has been to finish these on my hobbyist DS10 at home and to make them and some other lesser tweaks available to vms hobbyists at large and hopefully to get some of it in to the official gnu distribution of gawk or xgawk (whichever it's called these days.)
Though I'd like to turn some of this loose for any of you to try out I don't actually get the DS10 booted up very often these days. If you'd be interested in trying them out, though, it just might motivate me to turn on my DS10 a little more often.
It would also be fun to play with some of the new stuff in [x]gawk v3.1.6 that I haven't had much time to look at, such as some support for xml and for compiled-in (vs. dynamically loaded) user extensions.
If interested you can post here or send a pm here on openvmshobbyist.com, or mail me at gltmailbox dash vms at yawho dot com. (Of course, yawho is actually spelled yahoo.)
malmberg August 04 2022 No more VAX hobbyist licenses.
Community licenses for Alpha/IA64/X86_64 VMS Software Inc.
Commercial VMS software licenses for VAX available from HPE.
ozboomer July 20 2022 Just re-visiting.. No more hobbyist licenses? Is that from vmssoftware.com, no 'community' licenses?
valdirfranco July 01 2022 No more hobbyist license...sad
mister_wavey February 12 2022 I recall that the disks failed on the public access VMS systems that included Fafner
parwezw January 03 2022 Anyone know what happened to FAFNER.DYNDS.ORG?
I had a hobbyist account here but can longer access the site.
gtackett October 27 2021 Make that DECdfs _2.1A_ for Vax
gtackett October 27 2021 I'm looking for DECdfs V2.4A kit for VAX.
Asking here just in case anyone is still listening.
MarkRLV September 17 2021 At one time, didn't this web site have a job board? I would love to use my legacy skills one last time in my career.
malmberg January 18 2021 New Hobbyist PAKs for VAX/VMS are no longer available according to reports. Only commercial licenses are reported to be for sale from HPE
dfilip January 16 2021 Can someone please point me to hobbyist license pak? I'm looking for VAX/VMS 7.1, DECnet Phase IV, and UCX/TCPIP ... have the 7.1 media, need the license paks ... thanks!
