strings

[Chris Torek]

In article <558 at laic.UUCP> darin at laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
>... VMS functions that deal with strings need a string descriptor
>(which works fine in stuff like pascal, because the string type is
>built in).

Pascal does not have a string type.  VMS Pascal has an extension that
provides a string type.  There is a difference.  (Aside to Norman
Diamond: this is not the only case.  DEC managed some of their inter-
language compatibility by extending the languages in question.)
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