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Article #1107Re: Why use U* over VMS
From: Chris Torek
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 00:52
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 00:52
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>>[VMS is] also a whole lot more user friendly. In article <+SP6XL@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Yep. Everything is an option to "SET". Or `SHOW'. Lessee, now, to get a listing of files, was it `SHOW FILES'? No, wait, `SHOW FILES/DIRECTORY=CURRENT', er, no, `SET LISTING=FILES/CURRENT_DIRECTORY'... :-) (Or, to print a file to the screen, that was `PRINT FOO'? And to type one out on the letter-quality typewriter-device, that was `TYPE FOO'. Yeah, right.) [end scarcasm mode] The one nice thing I remember about VMS was that its `help' facility mostly worked. I did miss the equivalent of `apropos'.... (Mind you, this was VMS 2.3.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 405 2750) Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS Message-ID: <27237@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 29 Oct 90 00:52:14 GMT References: <ANDYO.90Oct23101417@glasperl.masscomp> <+SP6XL@xds13.ferranti.com> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 22