From: vaxinf@chclu.chemie.uni-konstanz.de
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:45 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Announcement: TCGMSG for OpenVMS/ALPHA; 64 bit Version


Hi,

I've promised to work on a crossplatform version of
tcgmsg for vms.

A "64bit" version now is available from

ftp://v36.chemie.uni-konstanz.de/tcgmsg_vms/

you may retrieve TCGMSG_VMS.ZIP that consists of both
version (32/64 bit) or get tcgmsg_vms_64bit.zip directly.

Now this new version talks with Tru64-Alphas or other
machines with IEEE-Floating point format (little endian?). On these
machines one can use the original tcgmsg-version.

To clarify the advantadge of this version: our 8 CPU GS40  UNIX-cluster
now
starts programs and interacts with our VMScluster-Machines.

I have noticed that the socketshr-library, that helps to
produced more vendor independent programs, wont't compile
with newer compiler versions ( DEC C V5.7-004 on OpenVMS
Alpha V7.1). I don't know who maintains this library, but
I think it's meaningful to do that.

regards
Eberhard