oneill#robin%e.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa (08/22/87)
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From: <ANK%CUNYVMS1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu> (ANIL KHULLAR)
Subject: RE: DCL shell for Unix
To: oneill@nmfecc.arpa
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Here is what I know of such a beast:
Boston Business Computing has a VCL which is VMS command language interpreter
for VAX
It is available for MS-DOS and Unix
It allows all syntax's of DCL as well as allows you to run UNIX commands too
Have I used It ????? NO
I did though play with it for two hours at my friend's machine (who is not
on any-net...Yetch!!!!!! so much for my opinion)
There was also a ref. in Digital Review few issues back.
Thats all for now
Anil Khullar
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cgf@ednor.UUCP (Chris Faylor) (08/24/87)
In article <8947@brl-adm.ARPA> either ank@cunyvms or oneill#robin%e.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa writes: (I can't tell from the posting which one to flame) >Here is what I know of such a beast: > >Boston Business Computing has a VCL which is VMS command language interpreter >for VAX > >It is available for MS-DOS and Unix > >It allows all syntax's of DCL as well as allows you to run UNIX commands too > >Have I used It ????? NO > >I did though play with it for two hours at my friend's machine (who is not ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >on any-net...Yetch!!!!!! so much for my opinion) ^^^^^^^^^^^ > >There was also a ref. in Digital Review few issues back. Well, Boston Business Computing is on the net, and Boston Business Computing is a little annoyed. Since we have not released the product yet, I fail to see how you could have played with it on a friend's machine, unless your friend received a Beta test copy. As far as I know none were distributed in your area(s). Also, comments such as "Yetch!!!" are ALWAYS nonproductive. I don't know you. Personally you may be the kind of individual from whom a "Yetch!!!" is a great reason for buying the product. Or, you may be a highly perceptive DCL user who uncovered serious flaws in our product. If you did, a description, however brief, of what you didn't like would be much more informative than any expletive. I would expect that any evaluation you do would be on an actual released version of the product, though. Boston Business Computing is a small company, and we made the (unfortunately) classic mistake of announcing VCL's availability too soon. There are a number of reasons for this. We are working on correcting all of them. VCL is now very near shipment. When it does ship want very much to hear about the problems any of our users find. I just hope that the reports we get will be a little more informative than this posting. Chees. -- -Chris Faylor- uunet!ednor!cgf "I feel more like I do now than I did when I first got here."