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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jq3dgg$alh$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt
<gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes: 

> In unix, I fairly often do:
> 
> mkdir newdir
> mv * newdir
> 
> Which gives a nice warning that it doesn't mv newdir.

$ dir

Directory DISK$SCRATCH:[HELBIG.TEST]

A.A;1               B.B;1               C.C;1

Total of 3 files.

$ creat/dir [.test]
$ rename *.* [.test]
%RENAME-E-OPENIN, error opening DISK$SCRATCH:[HELBIG.TEST]TEST.DIR;1 as input
-RMS-E-IDR, invalid directory rename operation
$ dir [...]

Directory DISK$SCRATCH:[HELBIG.TEST]

TEST.DIR;1

Total of 1 file.

Directory DISK$SCRATCH:[HELBIG.TEST.TEST]

A.A;1               B.B;1               C.C;1

Total of 3 files.

Grand total of 2 directories, 4 files.