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> Date:    Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:21:32 -0700
> From:    Tom Emerson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: HP3000 and HP-UX
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> HOWEVER: THIS (and the bit about commands in general) might present a great
> opportunity for someone: create an "MPE shell" that has all the old familiar
> commands mapped to unix equivalent commands and/or write new commands that
> display the unix data in an MPE fashion -- the source code for "ps" is
> freely available [for linux], all you need to do is write an output format
> that matches MPE's showjob output and you'll be in a position to make
> millions (ok, maybe thousands) of new friends who will absolutely rave over
> your "product" :)
>

There are already lots of offerings like this. Transformix has MPE
shell and there others out there too.

Actually on the scripting issue I think MPE came in too late and
too little. I remember scripting being pathetic on MPE V, and when
MPE XL and CI came it was a god send, but I had already had much
of this functionality on Unix ksh and csh, and VMS DCL for years.
I mean, how long did we have to wait for REDO and LISTREDO.

On new scripting projects, now I just write as much as I can in Perl
and run it on UNIX, MPE, VMS or Windows.

Jerry Finn
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