[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Arne Vajhøj]

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.

But SYS$CLI was not documented.

And I believe that many of the available "Unix" shells were just
ordinary programs (ordinary = residing in P0).

Arne