[Info-vax] VAX/VMS V1, V1.5 or anything older than V5

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Tue May 29 17:02:08 EDT 2012


Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:

(snip, regarding VMS 1.0, I wrote)
>> If you find one, try:
 
>> ren dir [-.dir]

>   Another problem: it was very easy to delete a directory 
> file that was not empty.

If you do that, does your disk quota not get updated?

I don't remember now how I accidentally found the above problem.

In unix, I fairly often do:

mkdir newdir
mv * newdir

Which gives a nice warning that it doesn't mv newdir.

-- glen




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