You may find this useful it works both ways, available at Amazon UNIX for OpenVMS Users Philip E. Bourne, Richard Holstein, Joseph McCullen Digital Press; ISBN: 1555581552
Regards, Martin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 April 2003 20:21 To: Carl Friedberg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: reverse(qw(VMS to Linux HOWTO)); Carl Friedberg wrote: !LINUX: VMS: !mkdir create/dir !ls dir !ls -la dir /fu !(warning, there are no hidden directories on VMS) !(there are available HARDLINKS starting in 7.3-1) !vi edit !(warning, no vi emulation to my knowledge...) !ps monitor system !free show memory !cat type !more type /page !tail type /tail !perl perl * I would be inclined to say that "show system" is more equivalent to "ps" than is monitor, especially when you consider that many folks who want to read the doc will telnet or ssh into a VMS system using an xterm with marginal SET TERMINAL settings hence lousy SMG$ and MONITOR support. On the other hand MONITOR is useful to know hence this list could be a one to many or many to many mapping. Another problem with such lists is the unknown customization that typically takes place. I have yet to come across a VMS shop where then was not some form of "cd :== @dir:cd.com" symbol in use heavily by folks who cannot stand to learn how to use SET DEFAULT. There are a myriad number of cd.com cd emulators some with better unix emulation than others. You could wind up documenting the quirks of whichever one you are familiar with rather than the one in use by someone else. However, I don't want to sound too discouraging. The effort no matter hwo difficult or subtle is probably well worth it. In fact I'll add a few commands: LINUX: VMS: man help grep pattern file search string filespec(s) cd directory set default [.directory] lsof show devices /file cc -c -switch cc /qualifier link . (sh, bash) @ source (csh, tcsh) @ at submit/after=time date show time pwd show default exit logout Perhaps this list could be converted to pod or html and posted at www.vmsperl.org? Or perhaps we should just invert one of the other Unix for VMS user html docs already out on the net? Peter Prymmer
