[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

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In article <e90cca68-697e-448b-9515-bfc6999612d0 at googlegroups.com>, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com writes:
>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=
>=20
>> 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 defi=
>ne a foreign command and use LIB$TPARSE.

Huh?  You thought LIB$TPARSE was simpler than CLI/CLD?  I've done some extensive
programming around LIB$T(ABLE_)PARSE (thousands of $STATEs/$TRANs statements) but
I can tell you that when it comes to a having VMS command syntax in a program, it
is CLI/CLD for me.  

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