[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Bart Zorn]

On Thursday, January 3, 2013 8:49:52 PM UTC+1, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> Comparing the VMS FAQ to HELP in LANCP, I didn't see the /FULL_DUPLEX 
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> qualifier, because it is in the wrong place:
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>     Parameter  Qualifiers
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>     /AGING_TIMER          /ALL       /ATMADDRESS           /AUTONEGOTIATE
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>     /CACHE_ENTRIES        /CLIP      /CONTENDER /DEVICE_SPECIFIC
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>     /DISABLE   /DISCOVERY_TIMER      /DLL       /EARLY     /ELAN      /ENABLE
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>     /FAILOVER_SET         /JUMBO     /FULL_DUPLEX          /MAP
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>     /MAX_BUFFERS          /MEDIA     /MIN_BUFFERS          /PERMANENT
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>     /PERMANENT_DATABASE   /PRIORITY  /PVC       /RING_PURGER
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>     /SOURCE_ROUTING       /SPEED     /SR_ENTRY  /TOKEN_ROTATION
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>     /TOKEN_TIMEOUT        /TRANSMIT_TIMEOUT     /UPDATE
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> Seems it has swapped places with /JUMBO.
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> The /PERMANENT_DATABASE is nice; would be nice to have that in TCPIP as 
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> well (but the CLI interface has been deprecated; what a shame).

The TCPIP CLI has sucked from the beginning. It would need redesigning and rewriting from scratch. In the mean time, the unix commands at least work, although some functions that do work in unix, do not work in OpenVMS.

For an idea about how one can configure several systems in a consistent way, see my article in the OpenVMS Technical Journal, Vol 14.

Bart