[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-07 23:48, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> 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.

Yes... But TeX was not originally written for VMS. And the question here 
was what programs were *originally* written for VMS, but written with 
ease of porting to other operating systems in mind.

The existence of a CLD file is rather irrelevant from that point of 
view. :-)

	Johnny

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