Here's the word from the OpenVMS FAQ: http://www.openvms.compaq.com/wizard/openvms_faq.txt ------------------------------------------------------------ VMS8. In what language is OpenVMS written? OpenVMS is written in a wide variety of languages. In no particular order, OpenVMS components are implemented using Bliss, Macro, Ada, PLI, VAX and DEC C, Fortran, UIL, VAX and Alpha SDL, Pascal, MDL, DEC C++, DCL, Message, and Document. And this is certainly not a complete list. However, the rumor is NOT true that an attempt was made to write pieces of OpenVMS in every supported language so that the Run-Time Libraries could not be unbundled. (APL, BASIC, COBOL and RPG are just some of the languages NOT represented!) There are a large variety of small and not-so-small tools and DCL command procedures that are used as part of the OpenVMS build, and a source code control system capable of maintaining over a hundred thousand source files across multiple parallel development projects, and overlapping releases. ------------------------------------------------------------ And what you've got are source LISTINGS, not source CODE. You can't compile them and come up with workable VMS. I think that I once read that historically, compiling and linking the newest version of VMS usually takes a full weekend on the fastest machine available. ============================== William W. Webb, EDS, c/o USPS CMF/OSS/MS 4924 Green Road Raleigh, NC 27616 919 874 3043 ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.