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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <glouvp$pgn$02$1 at news.t-online.com>,
	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> 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.

Heretic! Heretic!  Where is the Inquisition when we need it.  :-)

> 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.

I usually don't have to provide anything and I have a pile of
freshman dropped on the Unix systems every semester.

bill
 

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