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

[Michael Kraemer]

AEF schrieb:

> New! From IDG books: DOS for Dummkopfs.

That should be "Dummköpfe", but Umlauts are not everybody's
strong points.
Back to the point: Neither VMS Help nor Unix man pages
are appropriate for learning either OS from scratch.
They are meant as a reminder for forgotten keywords and such.
If you have no clue about those OS, both help systems
are next to useless.
I had to work on VMS before I knew Unix and found
VMS, its filesystem and its HELP less intuitive.
So Unix was a progress.
And, since you mentioned physics labs a few posts ago:
in these facilities one usually has a local primer
for newbies. Anyway one will need only a very small
subset of an OSs capabilities to do physics work.