Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bnl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!whuxle!harpo!decvax!mcnc!philabs!sbcs!bnl!stern From: stern@bnl.UUCP (Eric Stern) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: May be offensive to UNIX Users - PLE Message-ID: <526@bnl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 00:02:56 EDT Article-I.D.: bnl.526 Posted: Thu Aug 2 00:02:56 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:20:35 EDT References: <2200055@uokvax.UUCP> Organization: SUNY StonyBrook Lines: 14 >Try giving a casual user who knows C (on Unix) or Fortran (on VMS) the >assignment to "write a program that creates a file that has the word >'plugh' in it, following the documentation." On VMS, using RMS, you're >dead, since the documentation swamps you with no USEFUL examples. On Unix, >you stand a fighting chance. > > Jeff Bowles > Lisle, IL > > Who needs to look at RMS? The Fortran Users Guide is more than sufficient to handle this problem and it even has examples! Eric Stern