[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

(snip, someone wrote)

>> One of the most popular open-source packages, LaTeX.  :-)
 
> I can't remember for sure, but I seem to remember that LaTeX is a macro 
> package for TeX, and if so, then it can hardly be called a VMS program.
 
> But I'd be happy to be corrected.

I am not sure what does and doesn't qualify, but TeX, and
related programs, used the Command Definition Utility, such
that you had to tell DCL about it with a .CLD file. It then
accepted DCL-like command options.

I would call that a VMS program, but others might disagree.

-- glen