From: SMTP%"RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM" 22-APR-1994 09:27:19.41 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: File completion??? Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 21:35:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Regis McEwen Subject: Re: File completion??? To: nick@nick01.demon.co.uk Cc: info-vax@crvax.sri.com Message-id: <01HBG9HLPFPE000P1F@vms1.bbn.com> X-VMS-To: IN%"nick@nick01.demon.co.uk" X-VMS-Cc: IN%"info-vax@crvax.sri.com" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >In article <2p5r6d$4us@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com> brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com writes: >> In article , strickland@rock.enet.dec.com () >> writes: >> >Hi All, >> > I was just wondering if there is a program for VMS that allows >> >for file completion? Please email me with pointer if there is one. >> I assume you mean filename completion. There was an unreleased package >> written at DEC back in the mid '80s by a guy called Stan Rabinowitz >> (TURTLE::STAN). It was called 'recog' and did command line completion, >> including filenames. No idea where Stan is now. I don't think he's still at >> DEC, but his program is likley to be. Contact somebody you know in DEC. > > Stan left DEC a while back. Interesting man. Strangely enough, Jerry L. and > I were having a discussion by EMAIL about him, mainly due to WHAT (see below) > and the RECOG library. Stan went to Alliant or Ardent (or something). Where > he is now, we haven't a clue. > >> Stan also wrote 'WHAT', which gave a ton of monitoring information on the >> running system. > > WHAT is available as an ASSET - In January (last time I checked) there >were over 10,000 registered users... (an OpenVMS 6.1 version has just shipped). >Its an *amazing* utility. Considering that it was written as a "hack", is just > unbelievable. No other monitoring tool comes *close* to it. Stan R. was one > of the greats... Yes, he and Peter Gilbert just cranked out code... His explanation (might have been to a SPR) having to do with time is great read... -Regis