Favorite operating systems query (UNIX vs VMS flaming!!!)

tim at ism780c.UUCP tim at ism780c.UUCP
Fri Jul 18 05:34:41 AEST 1986


In article <6424QAA at PSUVM> QAA at PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>
>If you so choose, you may have your application parse ALL of the
>command line, spending tons of worthless cpu time deciding what is
>right and what is wrong, or you can opt to have DCL parse the command
>line for you.

In other words, you can spend tons or worthless CPU time, or you
can let DCL spend tons or worthless CPU time.  Or are you trying
to say that DCL can parse arguments without using CPU time?
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