[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Sun Feb 3 16:04:06 EST 2013


In article <kemhet$g21$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2013-02-03 19:11:22 +0000, AEF said:
> 
> 
>> Well, there are the environment variables. I could use $last, or
>> $2back, etc., instead of the logical names in TO.COM.
> 
> Environment variables aren't a direct match to logical names.  
> Similarities, yes, but there also are substantive differences, too.
> 
>> I can't believe that no one in the Unix or Linux or Gnu or whatever
>> world hasn't written something like TO.COM for Unix/Linux, or the bash
>> shell in particular.
> 
> So go write it?
> 

Is TO.COM a DCL Script?  Can someone send me a copy?  If not, is there
a help or something for TO.COM that would tell me what it does?  Might
be fun to try and duplicate it. (assuming I don't find that there is
already someting to do this in Unix.)

bill

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