Hallelujah!

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Mon Apr 12 13:40:01 1999

> > 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 ...

When I used OS/400 it was on a 327x terminal (wiht lousy editing keys and
not much real-time interaction). Does OS/400 still use or support those? I
would hate to type your enormous commands on a 3278.

What's BS2000? Some international standard?

-- Derek
Received on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 13:40:01 BST