[FreeVMS] DCL

[Roar Thronæs]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:56:11PM +0100, remi.chateauneu at gmail.com wrote:
> Le 17.06.2013 22:42, BERTRAND Joël a écrit :
> >Renee a écrit :
> >>Has anyone considered DCL or is it too early in the process?
> >
> >To early in the process. We need to obtain a running kernel with some IO
> >capabilities before trying to wrtie a shell.
> 
> Indeed. On the other hand it might be possible to write the highest 
> level part of a DCL interpreter:
> * Commands parsing (Options etc...)

Libraries for this exist.

> Also, some part of Record Management Services ( 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Management_Services ) could be 
> written (And used) independently of OpenVMS. At least prototyped.

That has already been done, and was integrated into FreeVMS 0.3 many
years ago, with some additions of write capabilities.
(But it seems to have been deliberately forgotten.)

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-Roar