[Info-vax] Filename completion, was: Re: VMS x86 performance ?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rnrldf$ji1$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2020-11-03, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> > In article <rnp19d$al7$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> >
> > That and command completion are the only two things on unix which I 
> > don't have on VMS, though there are various workarounds.  Having said 
> > that, these two things aren't as important on VMS as on unix.
> >
> 
> Filename completion is needed as much on VMS as it is on Unix.

On VMS, I can abbreviate commands and qualifiers if they are unique, so 
in that sense there is less need for it.  But it would be nice since I 
can get a list if it is not unique, and also expansion for file names.  
Of course, in things like CD.COM I allow for (all sorts of) 
abbreviations, but it would be nice to have it generally.

> Work with it for a while and you will _really_ miss it when using DCL.

Right.

Also the ability to send an interative process to the background is 
nice.  A workaround on VMS is to start with a subprocess then attach to 
the main process and so on, but that is not as nice.