[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Bart Zorn]

On Friday, January 4, 2013 1:05:48 PM UTC+1, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <nospam-1FE165.12192104012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
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> <nospam at sture.ch> writes: 
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> > In article <deaefade-6d49-4be3-82d0-dae39746898b at googlegroups.com>,
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> >  Bart Zorn wrote:
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> > > The TCPIP CLI has sucked from the beginning.
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> Actually, I like the concept, if not the details of the implementation.  
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> I like an interface I can use with SET and SHOW, with volatile and 
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> permanent databases, which has a VMS look and feel and will catch typos.
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Yes, that would be nice. When they started to design/implement the thing, they had a good example if they would have looked around: NCP. They did not.

It IS possible to implement something reasonable. LANCP does a fairly good job with SET/DEFINE and SHOW.

Bart