On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:38:46 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: >I always thought VMS was *nix like??? If not what opsys is it similar too or >is it's own thang > What's "*nix like"? On a cursory brush, I believe VMS has a hierarchic filesystem. That's *nix like. It doesn't have an ALLOCATE command. That's *nix like. Its files can have attributes. That's MVS-like.
I knew two programmers: one transplanted from a UNIX environment to VMS who spent much effort customing his VMS profile to make VMS behave like UNIX; the other transplanted from a UNIX environment who tried to make VMS behave like UNIX. Myself? I spent (wasted) enormous effort trying to make the uglier parts of XEDIT behave like their nicer ISPF analogues. VMS delimits its version numbers with ';'. Imagine how that must infuriate anyone accustomed to using ';' as a command separator. And an alien once asked me, "VM is a version of MVS, isn't it?" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
