Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS Message-ID: <+SP6XL@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 27 Oct 90 21:35:40 GMT References: <1990Oct25.160937.28144@edm.uucp> <1990Oct26.131224@wsl.dec.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19 In article <1990Oct26.131224@wsl.dec.com> gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten) writes: > Oh, I see. You consider the fact that VMS supports multiple file and record > types to be a bug. Some people consider things like ISAM file support built > into the runtime library to be a feature. Run-time library, yes. Operating system, no. You should not have to know what format a file is in to do things like search it for text strings. > The C runtime library under VMS supports stream files as the default file type > as well as supporting the full complement of standard C lib file routines. True, but only for files created by the C runtime library. > It's also a whole lot more user friendly. Yep. Everything is an option to "SET". -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com