On Thu, 29 May 1997, Brian D Chase wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 28 May 1997, Vitalya S. Lugovsky aka Mauhuur wrote:
> 
> >  Is there any way to do $SUBJ?
> > I've MicroVAX-II connected to the local network, where is NetBSD MicroVAX3900
> > and two OpenVMS VAX4000-xxx.
> > 
> >  What I need to $SUBJ?
> 
> Out of curiosity, what is $SUBJ?  It looks like something VMS-ish to me as
> VMS tends to make use of lots and lots of $'s.  (Do you think DEC was
> trying to hint at the cost of VMS and it's related maintenance? :-)  Then
> knowing the "$SUBJ" bit of info I could maybe better understand what
> you're trying to get your MicroVAX-II to do with the NetBSD MicroVAX 3900
> and OpenVMS VAX4000 you've already got on your network.
> 
> (Thiugh I'm not saying that I'd have a useful answer).

You'd better polish up on your Unix-knowledge, Brian.

$SUBJ is a typical Unix-thingie. Think of SUBJ as an environment variable,
and think of what a shell does with the above syntax.

A (probably correct) guess is that SUBJ is short for subject, by the
way... :-)

	Johnny

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