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From: ejg@ednor.UUCP (Ed Gaudet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: "User Friendly" shells for UNIX
Keywords: shell vms
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Date: 4 Jul 90 00:56:29 GMT
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>bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob Debula) writes:
>
>>*Sigh*  Please don't flame me for this, but there are those in our
>>organization who want to know if there are any "user friendly" shells
>>for UNIX (be they Public Domain or commercial).  I personally like
>>UNIX just fine, but the specific interest is in VMS look alikes for 
>>UNIX.  Any pointers to "user friendly" shells (vms or non-vms;
>>commercial or Public Domain) would be greatly appreciated. Next I'll
>>probably be out searching for "CP/M or MS/DOS like shells"; It's
>>depressing :-(
>
>Intergraph customers have been experiencing the same thing your users are --
>the need for a migration path from VMS to UNIX. As far as the shell goes, we
>offer a third party solution from Boston Business Computing. Its called VCL.
>It is a complete implementation of DCL -- including logical names, command
>procedures, and lexical functions.
>
>I don't have the address or phone number to BBC. Maybe they're listening??? :-)
>
>--
>Brady P. Merkel
>Intergraph Corporation
>Huntsvill, Alabama
>uunet!ingr!b11!brady



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Ed Gaudet