[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <op.urppckoihv4qyg at murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>,
	"Tom Linden" <tom at kednos.company> writes:
> 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.

Not sure what that means.  What makes a program "native"?

bill

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