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

[A famous IT technical writer]

On Jul 19, 5:10 pm, Johnny Billquist <b... at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2011-07-19 15.09, Bob Koehler wrote:
>
> > In article<B7udna93haTpdbnTnZ2dnUVZ_u-dn... at mchsi.com>, "John E. Malmberg"<wb8... 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

The code and examples are changing meanwhile more tests are performed.
Refer to
the last version of the paper at the always same URL link.
Thanks to everyone for his tests. The ODS-5 legal filespec syntax is
indeed not trivial.
Regards,
Philippe