[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun May 27 21:28:49 EDT 2018


On 5/27/2018 7:32 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-05-27, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> decent HELP and other documentation,
> 
> The HELP command on VMS is utterly useless unless you already know
> exactly what you are looking for and don't need to navigate between
> topics.

I think that depends a lot on the perspective.

If the requirement is that it must be able to run on a VT terminal,
then I don't think it is that bad.

If we compare to a hyper text GUI as is the standard today,
then it is not good.

Arne




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