[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-13 23:20, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.

And CLI/CLD is totally missing the point I was making. I'm not talking 
about command line parsing. I'm talking about my own program doing 
terminal I/O. I want line editing under those circumstances as well. How 
will CLI command line editing help me there???

	Johnny