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Evan Harris wrote:

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Clunky old OS/400 with its pathetic verbose text interface would force you to type something obvious like ORDERBY(*SIZE) as the parameter determining sort key. Anyone can see the OS/400 approach is clearly inferior - we all prefer cryptic terse statements to longer self-documenting statements...
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I know this is a dead thread, but I just managed to get this far. It seems to me that there is some confusion between characteristics of the various "shells" themselves and the utilities and/or commands that can be executed in a shell.

The confusion would be kind of like confusing the command processor (and perhaps the CL compiler) and various parameters on some commands. The two are in very different domains.

I can very much appreciate the 'shell' supplied by our system's command processor. At the same time, I can express long-standing confusion over how the MBROPT() and ALWOBJDIF() parameter values interact on a RSTOBJ command. An irritation with parameter values is far from irritation with the 'shell' itself.

Cryptic parameter values isn't really related to how redirection or piping or scripting or other 'shell' characteristics work. Cryptic parameters are from the developers of the utilities and not the fault of the 'shell'.

IMO, of course.

Tom Liotta


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