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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

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.

ZIP, UNZIP, and TAR have had VMS-style CLI interfaces for decades.

> 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.

Right, but some of the long options are really long, and can't be 
abbreviated, and can't be overwritten by specifying them again later on 
the command line.  Correct me if I am wrong.