[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/14/2023 1:21 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> Its been a long time, but as I already said,
> 
> VMS seemed to have a few portmanteau commands where the other OSen had a
> host of single function commands. For instance, to access the equivalents
> of the Unix commands rm, cp, less and ls under VAX/VMS you first logged in
> (same as unix) but then you had to start a package (sorry, but I don't
> remember its name) to access its own command line and then run  the UNIX-
> like comands.
> 
> That's stuck with me because no UNIX or Linux system works that way.and
> logging to every other OS I've used has given immediate access to a
> command line.

Now I am confused.

If you login to VMS you have immediate access to DCL commands.

If you want to use *nix commands you need to start something
(very old Eunice, old posix or new GNV bash or something similar).

If you login to Linux you have immediate access to *nix
commands.

If you want to use DCL commands you need to start some
third party DCL implementation (Sector 7 ??).

What is the difference?

Arne