[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> In article <e1df2a7d-5384-4917-8055-220e0264218f at i24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
> John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> Any technologist or even any craftsman or even any car fleet operator
>> (etc) who believes that there is one universal best tool (or even tool
>> family) that fits all requirements needs their head examining and
>> should immediately be disqualified from serious consideration for any
>> real work.
>>
>> Afaict it is only in the world of IT that the insanity of "one tool,
>> one supplier, one ecosystem, any business, any application" has become
>> widely acceptable.
> 
> I think the single tool analogy isn't quite appropriate.
> An OS is more like a toolbox containing various tools.
> The current mainstream OS's have tools for just about everything,
> including server tasks.
> VMS toolbox appears to be rather empty, its contents
> reduced to wrenches for pentagonal screw heads
> or similarly useless tools,
> but lacking simple screwdrivers or hammers.
> So if you're looking for a versatile toolbox,
> which one would you buy?
> 

VMS has the tools to do what I want.  It also has the ability to 
"import" tools with Unix-like backgrounds.  Somewhere, I have awk, grep. 
and make, for VMS.