[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <roBAl.128676$rb1.108293 at newsfe02.iad>,
	"Lee K. Gleason" <lee.gleason at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> "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.

I thought there was a BASH Shell for VMS?  Isn't it part of GNV?

bill

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