12 Apr
1999
12 Apr
'99
1:40 p.m.
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 ...