[Info-vax] quick question on .note files

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sun Jan 24 13:44:52 EST 2016


On 2016-01-24 18:22, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Rob Brown" <brown at greenslade.gmcl.internal> wrote in message
> news:slrnn9vqmj.cat.brown at greenslade.gmcl.internal...
>> On 2016-01-20, Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote:
>>> No, that isn't the problem. Bill is not familiar with VMS. He wrote that
>>> he is used to linux, so it follows that he is not used to commands that
>>> have obvious names :)
>>
>> Sure, but Hein told him to use the NOTES command, so Bill decided to try
>> DUMP and SEARCH instead.
>
>      One thing I am learning quickly is that VMS is very versatile. Whatever
> commands the system administrator allows that's what you get and it varies
> from system to system. I maybe wrong, but I have seen no NOTES command in
> openvms.

Notes is an application, and it needs to be installed. No different than 
anything in Unix. If you haven't installed inn, you do not have inn, for 
example.

	Johnny

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