[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Bob Koehler]

In article <7qecbeF3tt7rbU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> Of course it does.  If I want to run an executable file under VMS
> using RUN if the file ends in .EXE I don't have to include the
> extension but if it is anything else, I do.  VMS uses extensions
> just like other OSes.

   You ever try to convince a UNIX cc command that you have C source
   in a .a file?  You can do that on VMS.  I don't but not because the
   OS or its layered products force me.