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

[Neil Rieck]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:58:42 PM UTC-4, VAXm... at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.
> 
> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
> Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

Me too. Any promotion of OpenVMS by HP is welcome news. I "tried" to keep one eye on the attendee count and remember it hitting 136 (it may have gone higher). Nice to see colleagues from Montreal and Europe on the list.

NSR