[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

[IanD]

On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 11:41:29 PM UTC+11, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-03-20 12:47:
> > On 2015-03-19 21:41:08 +0000, JF Mezei said:
> >
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> >
> > If anyone here thinks the HELP context is good and cannot be improved,...
> 
> Kicking in open doors. Have *anyone* said anything else?
> Anything/everything can always be improved, of course.
> 
> >
> > As for more modern alternatives, running a VMS HELP server...
> 
> There are a number of web interfaces available for VMS HELP.
> Here os one: http://wasd.vsm.com.au/Help
> 
> Click "DIRECTORY" and then "Explode" and you get what more or less
> looks like a man-page... :-)
> 
> He, just found out that that HELP script was default enabled on
> WASD, so here is my office server: http://jescab2.dyndns.org/help
> 
> Generally speaking, I find the content of the Rdb help pages to be
> more complete then for the base VMS system. Check as an example
> the RMU BACKUP DATABASE page:
> http://jescab2.dyndns.org/help?key=RMU73~Backup~Database
> 
> Check the volume of the "Usage notes" and the 20 different
> backup "examples" with different scenarios.
> 
> And finaly, that help-interface also has a fulltext search option
> on every page...

+1 for WASD and Mark Daniels Conan the Librarian interface :-)

I sure would like it if WASD was also released with a new VMS install so that VMS users can pick Apache or WASD

I see there is even a wiki reference to it lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Librarian

Through a web interface i.e. say WASD was to be preinstalled on a VMS distribution :-) then it would be a much easier matter to start reforming Help to use video / audio content