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

[David Froble]

Robert Deininger wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I got that from subsequent posts.