[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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In article <n9sv36$s0n$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>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's a troublemaker too! :P


>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.

I just type.

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