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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
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Subject: May be offensive to VMS Users
Message-ID: <659@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 10:16:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.659
Posted: Tue Jul 17 10:16:09 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jul-84 04:43:53 EDT
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Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
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<bah, humbug!>

	> The reason that you see no books about VMS is that the people at
	> DEC have heard of something that will come as a mild shock to UN*X
	> people. It is called
	>
	>		DOCUMENTATION!!

Sure!  Like the unbelievably unreadable volume on VMS's run-time library
routines!  Like the primitive on-line "help" (giggle!)  facility and non-
existent on-line manuals (which means, of course, that you get to sit around
and twiddle your toes every time you need a manual but someone else has
borrowed the only copy in the Lab)!  (And I don't recall seeing any "bugs"
entries -- does this mean someone's actually done a correctness proof on
that monstrosity?!)  

To be fair, though -- I've found the Command Procedures of VMS a lot more
uniform and easier to write than the shellscripts of Unix: but on the whole,
VMS *s*u*c*k*s -- give me Unix any day!!!
-- 
Saumya Debray, 	SUNY at Stony Brook

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