[Info-vax] SET DEF and Other Questions Regarding DIR on a Different Hard

[Bob Koehler]

In article <5103ea7c$0$26895$e4fe514c at dreader37.news.xs4all.nl>, MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> Not important for the typical VAX user nowadays, but the latter
> notation doesn't work under DECwindows' "File Manager".

   Classic DECWindows, or CDE?

   Classic DECWindows File Manager thinks it knows too much about file
   name syntax, it does not work entirely well with ODS-5.  When using
   extended file names with both user files and directories, it has a
   habit of showing the correct file names, but thinks the directory 
   name is invalid.  Should have been coded to accept whatever file 
   names Files-11 is returning.

   But in a great many ways, classic DECWindows File Manager is more
   powerfull than CDE so I've ignored the errors, and learned to tell
   it [000000] instead of [0,0], ...