Why use U* over VMS

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <69986 at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> hughes at copper.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes) writes:
>In article <1380 at tharr.UUCP> sweh at tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris) writes:
>>How in VMS do you have filters and pipelines?
>>eg, what would be the VMS (DCL?) equivalent of
>>	getso - | tbl | pic | eqn | rof | col | sqps | lpr -Ppost < file
>>
>>Is there an equivalent, or would it need a lot of temporary files?
>
>Yes, you would need a lot of temporary files.

Would a POSIX-compliant VMS fix this?

				--Blair
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