VMS Question...

[Ram Meenakshisundaram]

Charon-VAX offers a freeware version now for OpenVMS users as well as Fedora
Linux users. But, I am going to use SIMH.  I'll just get a version of
OpenVMS for hobby usage.  The problem I have is more so with my wife than
really space.  I already have a lot of stuff in my house and adding yet
another system will just make matters worse.  The emulation route is more
suited for me.  

> You can also INSTALL them which makes them memory resident and multi-user
so every app 
> that needs access to them gets the memory copy rather than having to drag
its own copy off disk every time.

This sounds more like what I want to do.  I am in the process of re-writing
the iserver transputer host communication application to be a bit more open.
Currently, all the drivers are linked into the application which makes
adding new driver support a pain.  I want to dynamically load the library
from the application itself.  For example, the configuration file would be
like this:

|c0t5l0|T|localhost|/dev/c0t5l0|transputer.so||||

So, when the application configures itself for c0t510, it will dynamically
load the file transputer.so and use the device /dev/c0t510 as its resource
(this is NOT a real example). Is this possible?

The library will have the standard INMOS communication API present
(OpenLink, CloseLink, etc)

Thanks,

Ram