Re: OT - Shutting down an RS/6000 ?

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> We were talking about how easy it is to find out what a command does, and
> what command to use to do something.  And while I guess you have no contact
> with end users who use command prompting as part of their production
> environment, that's not the point.  Whether it's a user or a programmer has
> nothing to do with it, because in either case OS/400 ease of use beats Unix
> hands down.  No discussion, no argument, no quibble.  This isn't one of
> those gray areas where even a narrow, biased interpretation of the question
> can somehow show Unix in a better light.  Unix commands are named
> non-intuitively, the parameters are inconsistent and error prone, and there
> is no prompting.
> ...
Hmmm, methinks I hit a nerve here!  ;-)

Just curious - Would "CPYF" be more understandable than "cp" to
someone who doesn't know English?  ;-)

While on the subject, which OS/400 command do I use instead of "cp":
CPYF or CRTDUPOBJ? Which OS/400 command do I use instead of "mv":
MOVOBJ or RNMOBJ? Oh yeah, which OS/400 command do I use instead of
"rm"? DLTOBJ? No, there's no DLTOBJ command. I first need to know
the *type* of object before I can figure out how to delete it!

Look Joe, I don't mean to criticize OS/400, but its command set can
be just as confusing to a Posix programmer as the Posix command set
can be to an OS/400 programmer.

Cheers!  Hans