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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-02-15 11:52:06 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:

> In article <mailman.4.1455519582.4217.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>, 
> lists at openmailbox.org writes:
>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:28:45 -0500
>> David Froble via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Better idea, quit talking about *ix.
>> 
>> Anyway, blame it all on Hoffman. Wasn't he the one who started 
>> mentioning the UNIX shells? Troublemaker!
> 
> Yeah, Hoff's such a rabble-rouser! :P

Scroll your news reader article buffers back, and you'll find that it 
was Hein.  Not me.

Hein is quite correct, too.   UNIX command-line editing, command 
history, and related features are superior to those of OpenVMS.

DCL and the terminal driver haven't particularly changed in decades — 
editing and recall was the last related change, at VAX/VMS V4.0 — so 
this isn't a huge surprise.




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