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From: mcginnis@uop.edu (Rogue Barbarian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <1179@uop.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 88 21:41:48 GMT
References: <1636@tulum.UUCP> <68@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU> <5586@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Organization: A Siege Near You
Lines: 23
Summary: I agree!

In article <5586@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes:
> In article <68@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU>, terrell@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU (Roger Terrell) writes:
> > VMS ADVANTAGES:
> ...
> >    - VMS documentation blows UNIX documentation out of the water
> 
> Huh?!  VMS is VERY poorly documented if you want to do anything non-trivial.
> They tend to only cover the obvious cases, and leave you to guess at the
> complex cases.  All sorts of things are hidden or undocumented.
> 

  The last job I had, at a Sililcon Valley Company, before I returned
to school we used only VAX and VMS and I found that the VMS
documentation was very inadequate for the needs of even a substandard
programmer.  There was no documentation on any higher system functions 
or programming.  I prefer a UNIX enviorment and will, hopefully, not 
use VMS ever again.  I'd rather use Ultrix.



Richard W. McGinnis, Jr. (The Rogue Barbarian)  UOP Gamemaster
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