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From: ejbst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Ethan J Benatan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.editors,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: DCL and EDT for Unix?
Message-ID: <141850@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 21:59:15 GMT
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There is one emulator that I have used which works pretty well, and does both 
DCL and EDT; it is good enough that in half a day I managed to learn it and 
port some serious .com files to it, which required only minor modifications.

Here's the rub: it was on a Convex, and is proprietary Convex software, so
I don't know if it would be available or workable on anything else. But the
Convex folks might be able to help you.

The calm voice of reason regarding this: yes, the differences can get annoying;
yes, you won't have the unix advantages if you don't learn a shell; but 
each user will have to decide how much time to invest in learning. I needed one
job, *now*, so I did it the quick way. If you are going to be doing this for 
the next decade, you might want to learn a new shell...

	Ethan