[Info-vax] SSH

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

VAXman- wrote:
(snip, someone wrote)

>>There are millions of Unix users out there who seem to find the syntax 
>>and semantic usable and useful.  They couldn't care less what we think! 
>>  ISTR that someone wrote a "DCL shell" but I don't think it ever became 
>>popular.
 
> DCL shell or not will make no difference.  unix command switches are parsed
> in the utility, not by the shell a la DCL.  My comment was WRT the different
> syntax within the 'ssh' suite of commands: ssh, sftp, and scp.  Little 'p',
> big 'P' and 'oPort'.

Well, a DCL shell could preparse the options, and then invoke
the appropriate command with the options in unix form.  Though
that gets complicated if you want to add more options that the
shell doesn't know about.

Also, some DCL options might not have a unix equivalent, which
also complicates things.

-- glen