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

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <6e8ed89e-b4d6-48c3-93d0-1b18bc94c7ec at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>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

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I did read this now and all I first thought was

  To touch a file (update the modification time) do:
  $ SET FILE/NOEXPIRATION_DATE file

No, this doesn't create the file (if needed).
I have therefor a better way

  $ touch == "APPEND/NEW _NL:"

since the early nineties in my [SY]LOGIN.COM

Or that the escape sequence for blinking uses a
lowercase "m" (and not the uppercase "M" as in the PDF)

So, I'm obviously not the targeted audience for this
(though I haven't used SEARCH/SKIP for many years now
and SEARCH/WILDCARD would have been useful recently
but I haven't thought of it - and DCL$CTRLT was totally
new - so, PDF was finally for me indeed worth to read)

Thanks

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