[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Tom Linden]

On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:57:51 -0700, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>  
wrote:

> 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?
There is, but it is not native.
>
> bill
>



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