[Info-vax] History of DECSET / CMS

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sun Mar 29 21:38:46 EDT 2020


Andrew Shaw  <andrew at feeandl.com> wrote:
>
>I have some brand new code I am writing in Python for a utility to run on o=
>ur VMS environment and it is completely stand-alone from the rest of our ap=
>p code and so that will be going into Git which is the right answer as far =
>as that utility is concerned.

Fair enough.  In general,  VMS people stuck with CMS because it could handle
non-stream_lf files properly.  You could check in your DECForms forms, for
instance, and check in binaries.  I think today that is the only real 
advantage left to CMS.
--scott

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