[Info-vax] OpenVMS Aliasing

[AEF]

On Dec 14, 9:42 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 11:51 PM, Srikanth wrote:
>
> > Hi
>
> > Can you please help me in getting the aliases name for the folders in
> > OpenVMS machine.
> > It will be also very helpful if you can explain me how the aliasing
> > works in OpenVMS.
>
> > Am a new Bie to OpenVMS.Please help me on this.
>
> > Thanks
> > Srikanth.
>
> At the $ prompt type HELP HELP
>
> That should give you an explanation of how the HELP command works.
>
>  From there, you can try HELP COPY, HELP DELETE, HELP MAIL, HELP EDIT
> etc, etc.  Virtually all the command are English verbs!  I believe that
> a few languages other than English are supported but, as a monolingual
> American, they are of no use to me! ;-)

I don't see how these help topics are going to be of much help to him!
Some serious reading in the User's Manual and System Manager's manual,
and perhaps some RMS, would be of far more help then HELP.

He could be under serious time pressure. I'd cut him some slack.

AEF