[Info-vax] : Re: Default protection question

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:19:12 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I remember that on TOPS. But then I went back to using [] when I 
started using DOS/BATCH on the PDP-11. Anyone else remember that?



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