12 Apr
1999
12 Apr
'99
2:59 p.m.
> > As for OS/400, all you have to do is use the
ELMCRPF command... Eliminate
> > Cryptic Features. What? You can't find it? Well, I don't have any
other
> > suggestions then. :)
> Cryptic ? come on - nice, structured and logical - and BTW, no OS
> can be mastered without some time to learn the internals - some might
> offer fun wile learning (I still considere VMS the most cryptic one).
You definitely have a point about VMS.
I was making fun of OS/400's abbreviated command
style more than anything
else. (You know "Work with print queues" becomes "WRKPRTQ", etc.)
I know only our 'new' (some 6 years ago) BS2000 command interface
(SDF) is more OT for an OS command line - they canged simple commands
like CAT[aloge] (to modify catalog entries - like renaming or change
attributes) into Modify-Cataloge-Attributes - together with changing
from simple position and keyword parameters into some
kind of parenthes
driven madness - a simple 'CAT a,b,STATE=U' to change a
filename (a to b)
became 'MODIFY-FILE-ATTRIBUTES FILE-NAME=a,NEW-NAME=b' simple, isn't it ?
Some simple comands now need several lines to type ...
Gruss
H.
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