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Subject: Re: Favorite operating systems query (UNIX vs VMS flaming!!!)
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Date: Sun, 22-Jun-86 12:42:49 EDT
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In article <1000@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>Could you then do me a favor.  Show me how, in Fortran, I would go about
>setting the protection (no fancy ACL stuff, just basic RWED protections)
>on a file which I am creating.  (In C it's easy enough, since the protec-
>tion is specified when the file is created, which of course is tied to the
>straightforward Unix way of doing things!)  Please show actual code, such as
>a USEROPEN program, together with the OPEN() statement that calls it, to run
>....
The following is a trivial (and slow) way to do this.  I'm sure there is a 
better way but sitting here this is the best I can do.

       OPEN()
       ...
       Close()
       Call Lib$Spawn('Set Protection=....')


Personally I love to play with UNIX.  It is a lot of fun to poke around in.
On the other hand when I need to get things done I like VMS.  It is easy
because I don't need to think about how to do thinks, only about what I'm
trying to get done.  When I first started on VMS I just sat down at a terminal
and started to see if I could make it go.  My first command was EDIT TEST and
it worked!  Love at first sight.  I would never have guessed vi.  

Now that I know a little about UNIX I like it.  What I like about VMS is 
that I didn't need to take two weeks of workshops to learn enough to be
able to use it.

John Thurtell