[Info-vax] STARTREK.BCK Restore - How?

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In article <qdqrnc$tkn$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2019-06-12, Tom Wade <nospam at void.blackhole.mx> wrote:
>> On 2019-05-11 19:32, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> I've occasionally wondered whether making "-V" the default on OpenVMS 
>>> would be worth the hassles that'd cause, too.
>>
>> Yes, I agree, but it should be /VMS not "-V".  I find it constantly 
>> irritating that programs are 'ported' onto VMS without providing decent 
>> DCL parsing, and forcing us to use Unix style 
>> single-character-hieroglyphics for arguments.
>>
>
>It has been multiple decades since you were forced to use single characters
>to supply options under Unix. Now you have the best of both worlds; in many
>programs you can either use a single character for common options (if you
>wish) or a longer option name for all options.
>
>Take a look at the following for an example of what a modern Unix style
>command line looks like:
>
>https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html
>
>All options have meaningful names and some common ones also have single
>character names as an alternative as well.
>
>VSI are writing a mapping module to map the existing DCL qualifiers and
>options to the clang options, but there's a reason why there's no point
>in VSI going to the effort of making up a specific (and artificial) DCL
>qualifier for every single option on that list.
>
>If you need to go deeper that what the current DCL qualifiers and options
>provide, it is extremely viable (and preferred) to just use the existing
>clang options directly so you are using the same option names as everyone
>else uses.
>
>When we are talking about software which is used on multiple operating
>systems, this whole "give everything a DCL qualifier" idea is something
>that makes things different for the sake of being different without no
>real benefits and actually makes things worse.

If you could only abbreviate them in a fashion akin to DCL. ;)

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