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

[Norm Raphael]

 >On 09/23/14, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
 >
>In article <lkr8fb-diu2.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>
>>>$ 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!

...and this is documented where?

 
 Norman F. Raphael
"Everything worthwhile eventually 
degenerates into real work." -Murphy