[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 1/4/2013 6:19 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> In article <deaefade-6d49-4be3-82d0-dae39746898b at googlegroups.com>,
>   Bart Zorn <bart.zorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The TCPIP CLI has sucked from the beginning.
>
> You are not kidding.  My first experience with it was with UCX 3.n, and
> the help would scroll off the top of a VT screen.  Redirecting
> SYS$OUTPUT to disk didn't work either, so  I had to extract the text
> from the help libraries to read it.
>

Ah!  The bad old days! <evil grin>
 From UCX 2.7 up to V4.7, If UCX actually worked, we considered it a
miracle, thanked the deity, and waited patiently for the next failure.
We we seldom had to wait long.

My memory of those days has faded, for many good reasons.
ISTR that DEC bought the rights to some more or less working code and 
released it as V5.0.