Why use U* over VMS

[Chris Torek]

>>[VMS is] also a whole lot more user friendly.

In article <+SP6XL at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com
(Peter da Silva) writes:
>Yep. Everything is an option to "SET".

Or `SHOW'.  Lessee, now, to get a listing of files, was it `SHOW FILES'?
No, wait, `SHOW FILES/DIRECTORY=CURRENT', er, no, `SET
LISTING=FILES/CURRENT_DIRECTORY'... :-)

(Or, to print a file to the screen, that was `PRINT FOO'?  And to type
one out on the letter-quality typewriter-device, that was `TYPE FOO'.
Yeah, right.)

[end scarcasm mode]

The one nice thing I remember about VMS was that its `help' facility
mostly worked.  I did miss the equivalent of `apropos'....  (Mind you,
this was VMS 2.3.)
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