[Info-vax] : Re: Default protection question

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ibms8o$c7q$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article <ib9agl$bkp$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, Wilm Boerhout
> <wboerhout-deletethis at gmail.com> writes: 
> 
>> Every [nnnmmm] numeric directory, including [000000] can be written in 
>> DCL commands as [nnn,mmm] or even <nnn,mmm>. It is indeed a legacy from 
>> the RSX-11 compatibility days. So DUA0:[0,0] , DKA100<10,100> and 
>> DKA200:[1,4] are all valid directory (well, "account") notations.
> 
> But can't EVERY directory (not just numerical ones) be written with <> 
> instead of []?

   <> insteead of [] is inherited from TOPS, not RSX.  Lots of little
   things like that were added to VMS in the DECnet Phase IV days
   so they were no longer foreign file names that had to be quoted.
   . instead of ; was another of them.