[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 7:36:19 AM UTC+12, VAXman- wrote:

> In VMS, what do you think processes command lines?  Assuming you're using 
> the VMS CLI callback in yor program(s).  If it's just stupid unix-line -X
> switches, etc., then you're on your own.

I remember, in my limited attempts to create custom command-line tools for VMS, I looked at the DCL CLD thing, and decided it was just simpler to define a foreign command and use LIB$TPARSE.

The advantage of the POSIX command switches is, they’re very easy to parse. You don’t need any special library to do it, a little bit of custom scripting will do <https://github.com/ldo/render-useful/blob/master/render-batch>.