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Subject: Re: VMS x86-64 database server
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:23:43 -0400
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On 7/10/2025 8:00 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <md8er0Fqe6tU1@mid.individual.net>,
> bill  <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/8/2025 5:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 07:14:44 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> $ link main2 + sys$input/opt
>>>> main1shr/share
>>>> $
>>>>
>>>> what bucket would you put main1.exe in?
>>>
>>> Note that, on *nix systems, shareable libraries can be specified directly
>>> on the command line, without having to go through options files. Why does
>>> the VMS linker need options files for this common case?
>>
>> See above...  "on *nix systems"
>> He doesn't care about VMS.  STOP FEEDING HE TROLL!!!!!
> 
> I think that Arne may be incapable of that.  He seems unable to
> refrain from engaging, and clearly asking him to stop for the
> benefit of other readers has been ineffective thus far.
> 
> Perhaps the best thing is to just plonk any part of a thread
> where someone responds to the troll, whether the responder is
> Arne or anyone else.  I have no reason to believe that asking
> Arne again is going to yield a different result.

You are free to plonk all the threads you want to plonk.

And you are also free to post about about plonking this and that.

I would recommend that you do not post about it as it is
useless content for other.

Except if you run a VMS based newsreader and need help on
how to plonk. That would of course be a totally relevant topic.
But I have a strong feeling that is not the case.

But maybe consider this: when people read these threads
in 10 or 20 or 30 years, then what do you think people
will find most useful:
A) your rant(s) about Lawrence and talk about plonking
B) this subthread covering topics like: syntax for linking
    shareable images vs syntax for linking with shareable images,
    use of CLI$PRESENT return code to distinguish between
    qualifier on verb vs on parameter, difference between
    SYS$PIPE and SYS$INPUT when using PIPE command
?

Arne