RE: OT - Shutting down an RS/6000 ?

James

Very valid points.

There are reasons why WRKLNK was chosen.  The TLA  DIR was already
taken(sadly) years earlier for different reasons before the Tree structure
was added to OS/400.

And with the above statement you see seeds of why 'ls'  easier than WRKLNK.
OS/400 and it's command set was not designed for a tree structure.

It was designed on Library/Object/Object Type paradigm Not a
/Directory/directory/....

The ability of Unix to work on a directory structure was there from the
very inception of the OS.
It is no wonder that after 30-40 years of development that there exists
Nifty Tree structure commands.

You would expect that.  How many of those command were present 7 years
after Unix was invented?
(That's how long we had a Directory structure on this platform)

Objects, Libraries and the Object Type was at the core of OS/400.
It is not supprising it has a LOT of commands for Objects.

Unix's core structure has no concept of Objects or Object Types.  It
doesn't deal with them
naturally.  So to, OS/400's native command set is not "Optimized" for
Directory structured functions.

I believe those points have to be considered.

Your statement of;

<SNIP>
By and large it is gurus.
Because they choose an interface that for them is better *even in terms on
ease of use*.
<SNIP>

Is certainly true.  Believe it or not we had a similar phenomenon.
Our "Gurus"  used the command line using commands directly.
They would do a WRKACTJOB SBS(QINTER)

Those Not in the "Guru" class did those functions by
Go Main, <Take option 3>  to the System menu,  Take Option 2.
And so be guided via menus to where they wanted to go being held by the
hand.

peace

John Carr

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ls
To list all the files in /home/james on OS/400 I would use:
WRKLNK
On unix I use this:
ls -ltr
James Rich