[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

AEF wrote:

> bash-3.00$ apropos copy
> /usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory


On OS-X, apropos copy yields a ton of information about all sorts of
subroutines that copy stuff. In there, the "cp" command is listed. I
assume cat is also in there somewhere. The output is basically useless
but does include the cp command.


Note that on VMS:

$help cp yields "Sorry no information on CP". And there isn't an
"apropos" on VMS,

Now instead of "cp", lets use "mkdir" or "rmdir". Those are ubuquitous
command used in both DOS and Unix. Yet, there is no easy way on VMS to
find out that you need to use CREATE/DIRECTORY to make one, and then:


SET file directoryname.dir /prot=(w:rwed)
SET FILE [.directory...]*.dir /prot=(w:rwed)
DEL [.directory...]*.*;* multiple times until the files are all gone
DEL directoryname.dir;

In fact, I am not sure there is even a HELP entry on how to delete
directories on VMS.