[Info-vax] : Re: Default protection question

[smithfarm]

 > As you say, most DCL procedures only expect [] when doing
> their home-made parsing of directory strings. f$parse() will recognize
> either. Anybody care to check whether that's still true on V8.4 ?

On my 8.4 system:

$ write sys$output f$parse("[smithfarm]")
SYS$SYSROOT:[SMITHFARM].;
$ write sys$output f$parse("<smithfarm>")
SYS$SYSROOT:<SMITHFARM>.;
$

Nathan