[Info-vax] CLI editing, was: Re: VMS - Virtual Terminals - A security risk way back yonder OR was that an Old Wives Tale ?

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On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 12:47:43 -0500
Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

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> On Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 9:55:43 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist
> wrote:
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> > To be fair, Linux, BSD, UNix, illumos, OS X, etc, would seem to all  
> > actually be Unix

Linux is certainly not UNIX. The rest are either UNIX or based on UNIX,
that's true.

> and what you are referring to is bash, which have a better support for
> the command line than does OpenVMS.

I only use bash on Linux. I don't like it but much Linux software won't
build without it. Elsewhere I use whatever the native shell is, on Solaris
I use zsh which is actually a lot better shell than bash IMHO. Until you
have to build a Linux app anyway.