[Info-vax] DCL Syntax

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-08-31 kl. 20:25, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> On 08/31/2018 02:04 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 8/31/2018 11:29 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 08/31/2018 10:37 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now, what about the old VMS management station software?  Actually, is
>>>> requiring a weendoze or other desktop for GUI management of VMS
>>>> systems all that bad of an idea?
>>>
>>> I am sure there are many here who would say yes, especially if it
>>> required Windows.  :-)
>>>
>>>>                           Not a major cost for the desktop.  I think
>>>> the problem would be insuring that the interface to the desktop, the
>>>> desktop part of the system, would always be the same as the command
>>>> line based management.  Might be a whole bunch cheaper and easier than
>>>> graphics on a VMS system.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And who is going to write and maintain this non-VMS software needed
>>> to administer VMS systems?  How do you decide which other OSes that
>>> offer desktops your going to support?  Or are you happy alienating
>>> some of the customer base?
>>>
>>> bill
>>>
>>
>> I'd guess the same people doing the rest of VMS development.  Now let's 
>> see, who might that be?  Possibly VSI?
> 
> I wasn't aware that VSI was hiring Windows and Unix graphics savvy
> programmers.

No need to. You only need someone knowledgable in web programmning.
You do not have to know anything about Windows or Unix/Linux.

> 
>>
>> As for some of the customer base, would you rather have them all upset 
>> without a GUI management capability?  Or just Philip and perhaps Brian?
> 
> No, I think the future requires it.  Even though lots of us (even some
> of us Unix weenies) prefer the command line the future, like it or not,
> is screaming for GUI.  The question really is where that GUI is going
> to sit.  I am still in favor of it residing on VMS.

Yes, the applications using the web frontend certenly resides on VMS.

> That does not
> necessarily mean graphics support on the VMS box itself, although I am
> also in favor of that, but the applications need to run on VMS and only
> have the ability to display elsewhere...

Yes, on any modern web browser.