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

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In article <mailman.24.1411507043.10700.info-vax_info-vax.com at info-vax.com>, Norm Raphael <norman.raphael at verizon.net> writes:
> >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?

In my head?  :)

I'm sure that if you googled DCL_CTLFLAGS, you'd find plenty of references.
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