[Info-vax] Unexpected error using ZIP for OpenVMS

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Thu Jan 5 22:21:10 EST 2012


AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
(snip)

> When I was in graduate school I sometimes used a VAX 11/780 located at
> the Computer Science Center. They had something like the following in
> their announcement banner:

> Do not create directories more than six levels deep.

I remember in VMS 1.x renaming a directory into itself, and then
being surprised that it was accepted.  Fixed not so much later.

-- glen



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