[Info-vax] VMS dying? Nah, it refused to die here

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <lkr8fb-diu2.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>On 2014-09-23, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>
>>>$ shutdown -h now
>>>%DCL-W-DEFOVF, too many command procedure parameters - limit to eight
>
>Well VMS did refuse to die at the bidding of a Unix command :-)
>
>> Hey Paul, try this (assuming a fairly recent OpenVMS):
>>
>> $ MCR SYSGEN
>> SYSGEN> SET DCL_CTLFLAGS 8
>> SYSGEN> WRITE ACTIVE
>> SYSGEN> EXIT
>> $ shutdown -h now
>>
>> PS, don't do it in production. ;)
>
>Can't wait to see what it does :-)

It makes DCL accept up to 16 arguments instead of the typical 8 arguments.
Your "-h" and "now" would become parameters P9 and P10 and the shutdown 
procedure would be off and marching!

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