Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
From:    Neko
Date:    Fri Jan 16, 2026 04:47

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  Re: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
  By: anthk to Warp 4 on Tue Jan 13 2026 04:40:22

 > Damn, I'd love to start with as/400, because I can't grasp the
 > concept of objects and libraries and the like. It's like a
 > weird VMS/NT to the extreme. Yes, I'm learning Cobol because
 > of an $JOB. For the rest I can just use GCobol for prototyping
 > and perfectly fine under my OpenBSD netbook; but in order
 > to get employed I truly need at least to know the basics of
 > AS/400.

Libraries are more like... a tag for other objects? Not really a
folder, but works as such to some extent. I was taught AS/400 is
a big database, sothat sounds the closest. Every object can be
assigned to only one library, libraries can't contain others
(with an exception ofQSYS, which is a "master library").
So, a folder, but not really a folder. In FTP it's "translated"
to a directory so it's moreacceptable for PCs.

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