[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <Td2dnSX7ar73ACzXnZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
:

> 
> I do know that the POSIX shell is a piss poor 
> substitute for a genuine Unix shell.  The last time I tried (it was 
> maybe four years ago) the VMS POSIX shell was not capable of running the
> "configure" script for NTP.
> 

not necessarily VMS' fault. configure scripts tend to run on
Gnu/Linux only. An HP-UX system for example might have difficulties as well.