Why use U* over VMS

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Oct26.131224 at wsl.dec.com> gringort at wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten) writes:
> Oh, I see.  You consider the fact that VMS supports multiple file and record
> types to be a bug.  Some people consider things like ISAM file support built 
> into the runtime library to be a feature.  

Run-time library, yes.
Operating system, no.

You should not have to know what format a file is in to do things like
search it for text strings.

> The C runtime library under VMS supports stream files as the default file type
> as well as supporting the full complement of standard C lib file routines.

True, but only for files created by the C runtime library.

> It's also a whole lot more user friendly.

Yep. Everything is an option to "SET".
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