[Info-vax] DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ma0a9l$dn4$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> > Right.  You really want the North-American LK layout for VMS.
> 
> No, not realy. It is a major mess!

Maybe impractical (somewhat---I use COMPOSE) for writing Swedish, but 
what's wrong with it for VMS?

> And besides, today you often use use whatever kaybord your
> laptop come with or a connected standard keyboard. 

Not everyone.  You always log in remotely, whereas some people log in 
directly via a terminal or DECterm running on a VMS desktop!