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

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-23, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> 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!

Aha. Thanks.

-- 
$ exit 13492
%SYSTEM-F-GAMEOVER, all your base are belong to us