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

[Neil Rieck]

On Sunday, April 28, 2013 5:03:12 PM UTC-4, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER wrote:
> In article <6e8ed89e-b4d6-48c3-93d0-1b18bc94c7ec at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
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> >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:
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> >http://www.bellics.com/remote-link/DCL-Tips-n-Tricks.pdf
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> Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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> I did read this now and all I first thought was
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>   To touch a file (update the modification time) do:
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>   $ SET FILE/NOEXPIRATION_DATE file
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> No, this doesn't create the file (if needed).
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> I have therefor a better way
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>   $ touch == "APPEND/NEW _NL:"
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> since the early nineties in my [SY]LOGIN.COM
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> Or that the escape sequence for blinking uses a
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> lowercase "m" (and not the uppercase "M" as in the PDF)
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> So, I'm obviously not the targeted audience for this
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> (though I haven't used SEARCH/SKIP for many years now
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> and SEARCH/WILDCARD would have been useful recently
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> but I haven't thought of it - and DCL$CTRLT was totally
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> new - so, PDF was finally for me indeed worth to read)
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> Thanks
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> -- 
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> Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
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> Network and OpenVMS system specialist
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> E-mail  Peter at LANGSTOeGER.at
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1) I didn't know about any of the SET WATCH commands which appear to be 
undocumented (or, at least, not found in VMS Help)
2) I also didn't know about SEARCH/STATISTICS=SYMBOL or SEARCH/WILD

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