From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:wing Newsgroups: net.works Title: Re: Bandwidth, encodings, abbreviations and command language. Article-I.D.: populi.275 Posted: Wed Aug 4 09:03:36 1982 Received: Thu Aug 5 01:20:14 1982 To make a rebuttal to the last news item posted on this subject from ARPAVAX:CSVAX:mhtsa!eagle!harpo!decvax!utzoo!watmath!idallen : The command language for VAX/VMS IS memorable, at least to a point. Some things are a little weird, i.e. using a command file, deleting something from a queue, but are for the most part memorable. The help system on here is somewhat cryptic, but it is pretty good and has fast response, unlike "man." One main reason for the site I am at (not Populi, but RIX) chose VAX/VMS is that it DOES have a more human oriented command language that one can understand. Another reason was that some of the possibily better system available when this system was booted up for the first time were not available for VAX-11/780's. And, by the way, I didn't miss your point, you missed mine... Live Long And Prosper, and May The Force Be With You. The One And Only, Philip L. Wing U.C. at Berkeley ETA Region IX/DOL P.S. If you know how to send stuff by mail to the Lawerence Berkeley Laboratory Vax/Unix, you could probably bounce something to RIX. My account name there is the same as here...