[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Jan 27 08:43:07 EST 2022


On 2022-01-24 18:24, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/24/22 09:00, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-01-21, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll admit to learning much from overlays, but, it was still torture ..
>>>
>>
>> I learnt a lot from overlays, such as never wanting to go near the
>> bloody things ever again in my life. :-)
> 
> Funny how I always hear this.  I have done lots of overlays on
> Ultrix-11 (even for the kernel!) and never had any serious problems
> with them.  I even like them.  :-)

There is a big difference between overlays in Ultrix (or BSD) and RSX 
(well, TKB).

They are indeed very simple to use in Ultrix, but they are also much 
less powerful.

   Johnny


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