[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bill Gunshannon 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?

The big question (from technical perspective) is whether it is in
P0 or P1.

Arne