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- Subject: Re: name of VMS product has changed...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.153807@mccall.com>
- From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:38:07 CST
- Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
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- In article <1992Aug19.155548.8873@decuk.uvo.dec.com>, corne@jc3100.enet.dec.com
- (John Corne) writes:
- >>I just tried flipping into Posix and doing a "man tar" on an idle 8650. It
- >>took 15 seconds to get the first line of output, and the screen then updated
- >>at a rate of about 1 line per second.
-
- man is probably the worst case scenario, since it actually runs VMS help under
- the hood.
-
- >Have you tried to uncompress the help library?
-
- It ran so slow that I checked to make sure I hadn't forgotten to decompress the
- help library after an installation (I hadn't). It takes about 10 seconds to
- start on a VS3100/76 with a decompressed help library.
-
- [Sign of things to come? On a VMS system with POSIX installed, type (from VMS)
- "Help VMS". Guess what you get! :-)]
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