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- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 09:53:56 -0400
On 10/05/2002 01:07, "Jon Pugh" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I'm a VMS snob (excellent help facility for its day) and always thought the
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> Unix world with only "man" was deficient. Of course 20 some years of people
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> working in an OS is probably enough to get decent documentation near at hand
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> ;-)
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I always claimed VMS was the Macintosh of command line systems. They were
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consistent, with lengthy obvious names, and an excellent help system that you
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could easily integrate your applications into.
See...I never could get into VMS commands and I didn't like the help system
either...now OS/400 and the F4 key...*there* was a command line help
system...if you were really lost, you could punt..."Hmm...I think what I
want to do is more of a verb than an adjective, let's look at some verb
commands...oh look, it's building the command for me as I go along...cool!"
john
--
"We aren't going to try to train you,we're going to try to kill you."
- Soldier I, SAS
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