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

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In article <kl9pq6$fnq$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <kl9ipd$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.

BTW, I wasn't deriding it and I "attended" it.  I'm quite pleased to see that
HP^H^H VMS Engineering is doing webinars WRT to VMS at *ANY* level.  I'd hope
to see more.  There was a long list of names in attendance; many I recognised
and many I did not.  There was also a healthy bit of chatter in the chat room
during the presentation.

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