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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: VMS Fortran on Ultrix ( was Re: Help us defend against VMS!)
Message-ID: <14020011@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 88 18:51:51 GMT
References: <12041@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> > 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.

VMS documentation is often "understandable", but UNIX documentation is
ordinarily much more complete and accurate.

Also, HP Fortran on HP-UX 2.0 has many of the popular VMS Fortran features.

Dave