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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) skrev den 2015-01-25 03:21:
> 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?
>

That it is missing ÅÄÖ and that it is not a proper
"Swedish" layout. Of course...


>> 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!
>

Or to generalize that statement a bit...

Most usualy log in remotely using a standard PC. There are
a very small few still using a DECterm on a VMS desktop.

Please prove me wrong with some current statistics...

Jan-Erik.