[Info-vax] DCL Tips & Tricks (the seminar)

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In article <kl9ipd$fv7$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>On 2013-04-24 20:56:31 +0000, Neil Rieck said:
>
>> HP held a webinar today titled "DC L Tips & Tricks". There were a 
>> couple of things I didn't know about and, if anyone else is interested, 
>> a copy of the seminar notes can be found here:
>> 
>> http://www.bellics.com/remote-link/DCL-Tips-n-Tricks.pdf
>> 
>> Enjoy.
>
>FWIW and AFAIK and IIRC...
>
>That "recycle bin" scheme will derail command procedures that expect to 
>use DELETE with any qualifiers.
>
>The algorithm used within the VMS$CHKPWD password tool was quite lame.
>
>The MAIL$INTERNET_TRANSPORT setting hasn't been needed in a while.  
>Since V6.2, maybe?  Dots found in the host name cause MAIL to select 
>the SMTP transport automatically.  And if you want to change how an 
>address is interpreted, you'll probably want to use MAIL$INTERNET_MODE 
>and not MAIL$INTERNET_TRANSPORT.
>
>It's easier to set the WRITESYSPARAMS to zero after changing the 
>startup to OPA0:, as that eliminates the need to reset anything later.

I found the whole content to be rather cursory and novice.  There was more
about various utilities and logicals, several with no bearing today as you
have pointed out, than there was about DCL.

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