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

[Robert Deininger]

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 5:56:46 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> >>>> SYSGEN> SET DCL_CTLFLAGS 8

> management.  Really, I'm pretty laid back.  But that sequence of 
> commands really sucks.  Even a +8 might have been acceptable.  But if 
> you're going to set the number of acceptable arguments to 16, the "8" is 
> really stupid.

DCL_CTLFLAGS is a bit mask.  The value 8 represents a particular bit, probably the next unused bit
when this experimental feature was added.  It's just a coincidence that the value happens to be 8.