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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> 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,
> 
Typing just "HELP" gets you a list of ALL the commands.  Most of them 
are English words related to what they do; e.g. COPY, SET, SHOW, DELETE, 
CREATE, EDIT, TYPE, PRINT, . . . .  Any VMS command is guaranteed to be 
unique at four characters and some can be trimmed to two or three 
characters.

SHOW TIME is equivalent to "date" in Unix
SHOW SYSTEM is equivalent to "ps"
SHOW DEVICE lists all the I/O devices known to the system: disks, tape 
drives, serial ports, Ethernet NICs, etc.
SET sets things; e.g. SET TIME=27-JAN-2009:15:47:53.7
SET DEFAULT <disk&directory> equivalent to "cd"
etc.
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