[Info-vax] SPM 3.4 installation issue on VMS 6.1

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-01-15, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
> In article <n798i4$r5u$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> 
>> In suggesting that someone read the entire "grey wall", you're just giving Steve 
>> more ammunition to say VMS is behind the times.  After all, people don't have to 
>> do that to use *ix or weendoze, do they?
>
>    Just try learning to use grep without at least a man page.  I learned
>    to use most of VMS by reading the help.  The little blue shelf came
>    later.
>

The problem there is that grep has much more functionality than $ SEARCH
does.

If $ SEARCH had that level of functionality, you would probably need to
also read it's documentation page before you could fully use it.

Simon.

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