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Subject: VMS gophering:  was Re: VAXC chdir bug compiling VMSGOPHERD?
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From: jasper@molbiol.ox.ac.uk
Date: 14 May 93 00:04:09 BST
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In article <1993May12.154503.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>, crywalt@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:
>
>I've had a serious problem trying to compile VMSGOPHERD using VAXC.  The durn

compile = run in this syntax?  Assuming that the traceback at the end isn't 
your .sig ? :))

>	thing makes a call to chdir() which just adamantly refuses to work.
>	Basically, it translates a logical name to a string,, which works
>	okay, but then the chdir returns -1.  I've even tried hardcoding the
>	directory -- just calling chdir("GOPHER_ROOT:[000000]") for example.
>	No go.
>Is there some sort of known problem with chdir that no one has told me about?

Which version of everything have you here? (VMS, VAXC, TCP/IP and GopherD)

Start over and...:

Gopher to psulias.psu.edu and look for VMS Gopher Client and Server under
Libraries computing and then save done all the code files in the PSU/LCS VMS
Gopher Server (documents & source)/ directory, pull down everything, edit the
descript.mms file as you need and compile it. (If you haven't got MMS then
you'll have to write a com file to do it.) 

This server is version 1.2 beta 4.  Modified to VMS. Works cool with Multinet, 
Wollongong, even UCX!

Its secure.... (*don't* run the 0.6 version unless you want to be hacked Big 
Time)

there is a mailing list for this porting effort:

VMSGopher-L@trln.lib.unc.edu

joing by sending SUBSCRIBE to

VMSGopher-L-Request@trln.lib.unc.edu

which is where the VMS action is right now (Gopher, Gopher+, WAIS, Xmosaic 
etc), when VMS catch up it will be "back to normal broadcasting schedules.

And appologies if you are on that this already and bothered to read this far.

Jasper Rees
Oxford Universtiy Molecular Biology Data Centre
and The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

jasper@molbiol.ox.ac.uk