[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Paul Sture]

In article <3oidnQumNI-EyXrNnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
 "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.

My memory says that they ported the stack from True64.  I was hoping for 
a better management interface from that but it didn't happen.

-- 
Paul Sture