[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[Lee K. Gleason]

"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.
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Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
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