Re: [OT] VMS ODS-5 filesystems, was: Re: Filenames in Ada

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:01 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:


> I don't mind VMS - just some if the tools drive me insane - like that joke
> of a command line shell which can't backspace over a line wrap. So I really
> which for I had a GNU/VMS tool chain available.
>
> At least I got a decent editor (vim) now.

Can't you use editors to construct more complicated
commands that span a number of lines and need editting?


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