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

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.
> 

I didn't know anything about it, but, that HP does anything concerning 
VMS is interesting.  Got to wonder what's behind it.