[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <gr0245$rh7$1 at south.jnrs.ja.net>,
	"Richard Brodie" <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message 
> news:73hefhFutmjfU2 at mid.individual.net...
> 
>>>> 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"?
> 
> It's not a CLI, as the POSIX shell was. You can't run programs in it without
> creating a new process, for example. 

I guess I am out of my depth here, but what would have to be done to
make it work right?  I mean, I am sure the real BASH Shell makes use
of fork() which we know is not available on VMS.  Not sure what the
alternative would be but is that what you mean?

bill

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