[Info-vax] portable sequential file formats (was: Re: Couple of questions on VMS -> world)

[dodecahedron99 at gmail.com]

On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 8:20:06 PM UTC+11, li... at openmailbox.org wrote:
> Thanks. I am brand new to VMS so the question was aimed at getting the info
> I want to get off the disk in the quickest most painless way. Eventually I
> hope to be able to do everything related to VMS from VMS but for now I am
> more able to do things in UNIX, Linux etc.

Wow, another new person to VMS :-)

There seems to be a growing number of people lately (not huge but hey, any increase is a good thing)

Welcome to the world of VMS. It's an interesting world and a great OS that admittedly needs revamping on some areas (a lot of areas?). There's LOTS of work to be done, your contribution will be greatly appreciated

I think, what the VMS community would like to see is not so much unix tools merely ported over to VMS with the unix philosophy intact but to see many of the good unix things ported to VMS but done the VMS way, which as you'll discover, normal means with robustness and options in mind and with great supporting documentation. It's the VMS way to be consistent, which is why VMS folk tend to get frustrated with unix (or I do) with different command switches for different commands

I hope you find the VMS community supportive :-)