[Info-vax] bug with DIRECTORY and search lists

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<a22d5e50-e880-425b-9c93-252e27fa401d at g23g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, AEF
<spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes: 

> What's happening here is that RMS is doing sticky defaults. Since BBB
> is missing disk, filename, and type fields, RMS matches all possible
> values of SYS$DISK from the previous file-spec, AAA. 

That might be assumed from the example above, but I first saw the 
command with logicals which were defined as DISK:[DIR], so each logical 
name was a full path.

> $ DIRECTORY GETTYSBURG:SPEECH.TXT;*
> 
> Directory DISK1:[JONES.HISTORY]
> 
> SPEECH.TXT;2     SPEECH.TXT;1
> 
> Total of 2 files.
> 
> Directory DISK1:[JONES.WORKFILES]
> 
> SPEECH.TXT;1
> 
> Total of 1 file.
> 
> Grand total of 2 directories, 3 files.

OK, but I had two ;1 in the same directory.