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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: why learn UNIX
Message-ID: <5585@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 1-Feb-87 01:09:44 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5585
Posted: Sun Feb  1 01:09:44 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Feb-87 05:14:12 EST
References: <2083@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1238@frog.UUCP> <4221@utah-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4221@utah-cs.UUCP> cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron) writes:
>->tr '\t ' '\n' | sort | uniq | comm -23 - /usr/lib/dict/wordlist
>  Now, explain to me why if I can do this
>on my UNIX machine  AND I can do it on my VMS  machine, why UNIX is better 
>than VMS.

The only reason you can run this on your VMS system is that all the
necessary parts were lifted from UNIX.  The early releases of VMS
certainly did not support anything of the sort.  Actually it rather
surprises me that the current release of VMS does.  Or are you
running the Software Tools VOS or DEC-Shell instead of DCL?