why learn UNIX

[rbj at icst-cmr.arpa]

   In a recent article dalem at hpfcph.HP.COM ( Dale McCluskey) wrote:
   >Two comments.  First, while UNIX manuals aren't designed with beginners in
   >mind, they DO tell you a great deal that you will have trouble finding in
   >VMS manuals - file formats, for instance.  

   True, sometimes. For a counter-example, try Tar-file format - we just
   replicated tar onto VMS, and it was surely a nuisance that that format 
   wasn't written down anywhere! 

Try man 5 tar.

   garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak at cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)


(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell	<rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>