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

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Sun Feb 3 18:05:31 EST 2013


In article <an81m5F44nlU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>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.)

You can find it here: http://decuslib.com/freeware/freewarev80/to/

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