[Info-vax] Update to TCP/IP problem with Alpha VMS 8.4

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Sture wrote 2012-04-06 10:27:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:29:53 -0700, Steven Schweda wrote:
>
>>
>>> 10.1.1.1 cougar Cougar COUGAR
>>
>>     Have you ever seen a situation where case mattered in
>> these data?
>>
>
> That's an interesting question.  I have created TCP/IP Services host
> names in both uppercase and lowercase (though not capitalised) for years.
>
> I must have had some reason to do this, but I cannot remember why.  I
> don't think I would have done this purely because "It looks more
> consistent on outputs", but maybe I did.  Maybe it dates back to older
> versions of software in use circa 1998.
>

TCPIP does some weird things here (some lines deleted) :

$ tcpip sho ver

   HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.7 - ECO 3
   on an AlphaServer DS25 running OpenVMS V8.4

$


$ tcpip set host ABC/addr=1.2.3.4
$ tcpip set host "abc2"/addr=1.2.3.5

$ tcpip sh host /local
1.2.3.4         ABC
1.2.3.5         abc2

As expected.

$ tcpip sho host abc*
1.2.3.4         ABC

OK, so abc* get uppercased by DCL (?).

$ tcpip sho host "abc*"
1.2.3.5         abc2

Case preserved, right ?

$ tcpip sho host ABC2
1.2.3.5         abc2

$ tcpip sho host ABC*
1.2.3.4         ABC

$ tcpip sho host ABC2*
1.2.3.5         abc2

Something more then case alone is going on.



$ tcpip sho host "abc*"
1.2.3.5         abc2

$ tcpip set nohost abc2
$ tcpip sho host "abc*"
1.2.3.4         ABC

Weird...