[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Lee K. Gleason wrote:
> "Tom Linden" <tom at kednos.company> wrote in message
> news:op.urol0mnihv4qyg at murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net...
>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:43:36 -0700, yyyc186 <yyyc186 at hughes.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It would be easier to add a Bash shell to OpenVMS than to redevelop a
>>> Unix kernel which had the concept of a record.
>> Have you thought about how to do that?  Amongst other things it requires
>> the ability to create lexical functions.
>>
>   Many many years ago, I saw a DEC Educational course offering titled
> something like "Creating a command line interpreter for VMS", so presumably
> creating an alternative "shell", as the Unix types call it, to replace DCL
> with, was known art at one time.
> --
> Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
> Control-G Consultants
> lee.gleason at comcast.net
> 
> 

I think TGV, and maybe a few others, reverse engineered the interface.