VMS Fortran on Ultrix ( was Re: Help us defend against VMS!)

Dave Decot decot at hpisod2.HP.COM
Sat Mar 5 04:51:51 AEST 1988


> > VMS ADVANTAGES:
> ...
> >    - VMS documentation blows UNIX documentation out of the water
> 
> Huh?!  VMS is VERY poorly documented if you want to do anything non-trivial.
> They tend to only cover the obvious cases, and leave you to guess at the
> complex cases.  All sorts of things are hidden or undocumented.

VMS documentation is often "understandable", but UNIX documentation is
ordinarily much more complete and accurate.

Also, HP Fortran on HP-UX 2.0 has many of the popular VMS Fortran features.

Dave



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