But having used VMS (as a student), the command
line *sucked* (except
for the help facility---that blows the Unix man command out of the
water).
I'm not sure I agree. The VMS command line I used sucked, but so did
Unix shells of the time, and in many of the same ways.
What is it that "sucked" about the VMS command line? I used it a lot and I
had some issues here and there but I found it to be streets ahead of any other
command line system I came across on anything else anywhere.
(Not that I think we should doing os-wars re-enactments here. Too many glass
houses to start a stone throwing competition.)
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.