[Info-vax] Further evidence of declining quality of VMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <sb6dnVOt7-QC6kHRnZ2dnUVZ_oudnZ2d at speakeasy.net>, "Craig A.
Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes: 

> Jojimbo wrote:
> > From the TCPIP Services management manual (v5.6)
> > 
> > "$ XYZPRINT :== $ PRINT/QUEUE=TCPIP$LPD_OUT -
> > _$ /PARAMETER=(HOST=LPDSVR.XYZ.ORG,PRINTER=XYZPRINT)
> > 
> > If the logical name is defined systemwide, the XYZPRINT command always
> > prints to the specified printer on the specified host."
> > 
> > Looks like a symbol to me, most people figure out the difference
> > pretty quickly.
> 
> It may be the gaffe you think it is, though just above that it also
> says, "You might want to associate DCL symbols with the destination
> printers. . . ." It doesn't seem certain to me that the writer believes
> XYZPRINT is a logical name, though it is an ambiguous formulation and
> should be fixed.

Doesn't the "logical name" refer to TCPIP$LPD_OUT?