VMS help file

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Wed Feb 13 10:14:40 2002

> healthy 16Mb Model 30 with two hard disks and VMS 5.5-2

Muchogradulations.

> - are there VMS equivalents of 'find' and 'grep' to set
> loose on the disks to look for this file?

search =~ grep
dir [000000...] =~ a cross between 'ls / -R' and 'find / -print'
cmd/out=file.txt =~ cmd >file.txt

limited usage help is available.
cmd<cr> without arguments will prompt you for the
parameters one by one.

You can't form pipes but you can search other commands
/out files, so the functionality is there, only more cumbersome.

> - if the help file isn't on either disk, would somebody
> be able to send me a copy?

  Sure. What media type?

> was chuffed to find ...

Chuff. Larry Niven's Kzin's?

John A.
Received on Wed Feb 13 2002 - 10:14:40 GMT