Hallelujah!

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon Apr 12 14:59:53 1999

> > > As for OS/400, all you have to do is use the ELMCRPF command... Eliminate
> > > Cryptic Features. What? You can't find it? Well, I don't have any other
> > > suggestions then. :)
> > Cryptic ? come on - nice, structured and logical - and BTW, no OS
> > can be mastered without some time to learn the internals - some might
> > offer fun wile learning (I still considere VMS the most cryptic one).

> You definitely have a point about VMS.

> I was making fun of OS/400's abbreviated command style more than anything
> else. (You know "Work with print queues" becomes "WRKPRTQ", etc.)

I know only our 'new' (some 6 years ago) BS2000 command interface
(SDF) is more OT for an OS command line - they canged simple commands
like CAT[aloge] (to modify catalog entries - like renaming or change
attributes) into Modify-Cataloge-Attributes - together with changing
from simple position and keyword parameters into some kind of parenthes
driven madness - a simple 'CAT a,b,STATE=U' to change a filename (a to b)
became 'MODIFY-FILE-ATTRIBUTES FILE-NAME=a,NEW-NAME=b' simple, isn't it ?

Some simple comands now need several lines to type ...

Gruss
H.

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