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From: terryl@tekcrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: dsb unix vs. dec's vms
Message-ID: <1660@tekcrl.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 13:36:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekcrl.1660
Posted: Wed May 20 13:36:01 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 22-May-87 00:53:12 EDT
References: <5828@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <34ab0e42.8be4@apollo.uucp> <667@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1135@byzantium.swatsun.UUCP> <12911@vaxc.ARPA>
Reply-To: terryl@tekcrl.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <12911@vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@vaxc.UUCP (Michael Khaw) writes:
>In article <1135@byzantium.swatsun.UUCP> schwartz@swatsun (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>...
>>But: I do know that if you hit the <up arrow> key the shell gives you
>>the previous command line.  Repeat n-times and you get the nth previous
>>command line.  If it can do this, I can't believe it couldn't support
>
>This may have changed with more recent releases, but in VMS 4.2, there was
>a limit of 20 remembered commands.  I don't see any relationship between
>DCL storing prior commands and whether or not it accepts multiple commands
>on one line.

     Definitely agree that one has absolutely no relation to the other...

     Pardon for my ignorance (I haven't had to use VMS since MANY, MANY moons
ago, around version 1.6, me thinks), but isn't the reason for only one command
per line is because (drum roll Anton, thanx) (NOTE: this is from VERY hazy
memory)

	WHAT DO YOU USE FOR A COMMAND SEPARATOR????

     After all, just to specify FILE names, all of these characters are already
taken:

	: ; . * [ ] $ /
plus all of the digits and letters (maybe _ also?)

     And to specify switches/arguments to commands, these characters are taken:

	( , = ) + - /


     I rest my case!!! (Insert MANY (-: here)