Gil and R.S., I was curious about VMS because I haven't worked on that platform. Worked many others in a past life supporting LU 6.2 file transfer on 26 platforms. But that was like a lifetime ago. I went from OS/VS2 to VSE to VM/VSE , then MVS ....so I feel your pain Gil
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 5, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
