[Info-vax] C RTL decc$translate_name - The Java way

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-07-19 15.09, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<B7udna93haTpdbnTnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d at mchsi.com>, "John E. Malmberg"<wb8tyw at qsl.network>  writes:
>>
>> The<>  syntax has been legal in VMS since day 1.
>
>     IIRC, it was new in VMS 3.0.  Added to make DECnet connections to TOPS-20
>     not require foriegn file name syntax.  I recall having to use foreign
>     file name syntax under 2.5.

No. I think it was there from V1.0. TOPS-20 originally shipped in 1976, 
at the same time as VMS was in full development, so they knew about each 
other. I read somewhere (can't remember where), that there was disputes 
inside DEC wether <> or [] should be used as directory delimiters. I 
think that at some point they decided on <>, and TOPS-20 went with that. 
The decision was then reversed, and VMS went with that, but accepted <> 
as well.

Btw, RSX also accepts <> as directory delimiters in addition to [].

	Johnny