Everhart,Glenn From: schenkenberg@eisner.decus.org Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 5:46 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Free VMS??? In article <6ejos9$8jl$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, tsmurphy@cs.uiuc.edu (TERENCE MURPHY) writes: > In article <6ehro3$2bn$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, > wrote: >>jleslie@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie) writes: >> >>A >> Check out XLNT at http://www.advsyscon.com >>and leave your comment here > > I got the evalutaion copy and this appears to be a very high quality > product. If you want a really high quality DCL for your PeeCee, try: http://www.accelr8.com/products/odcl.htm For faithfulness to DCL, it is far superior to the other product. Of course, DCL is NOT VMS. > I am somewhat disappointed by the VMS compatibility in a few areas, for > example, directory specification. XLNT just uses the DOS directory > syntax, and doesn't recognize "." as a directory separator, [] as the > directory enclosure, or [000000] as the root directory. Well, look at the source. Accelr8 has been providing DCL and misc. VMS migration packages for the unix environment for a long time. > Is there a shell which does things like this? There is a product > called VX/DCL which supposedly is extremely VMS compatible, but I > haven't had much luck getting a price quote on it (from the company, > wwww.sector7.com), probably since I'm just an individual. Anybody > used this product? This is another very fine product and also more faithfully represents DCL. Sector7 has an entire suite of products which will present a pseudo-VMS environment to the user -- even RMS index file operations. Funny how everyone wants to enrich the pockets of these vendors to make their sleazy PCs look like a half-baked VMS box. Why not just buy a VMS box! -- VAXman- VAXman@TMESIS.COM OpenVMS APE certification number: AAA-0001 ... and in the end, the money you take is equal to the money you make.