[Info-vax] Looking for suggestions for new $GETDVI item codes

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-18 14:06:19 +0000, dodecahedron99 at gmail.com said:

> On Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 4:28:30 AM UTC+11, Mark Jilson wrote:
>> In article <m1slav$o27$1 at dont-email.me>, "Robert A. Brooks" 
>> <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>>> Back in the day when I worked in VMS Engineering in Nashua, NH, I would
>>> periodically poll the collective wisdom of comp.os.vms for suggestions
>>> regarding
>>> new $GETDVI item codes.  I received many good ideas over the years, among them
>>> the LAN_* item codes that first appeared in V8.3 (and quietly backported
>>> to V7.3-2).
>> 
>> 
>> PERCENT_USED or PERCENT_FREE for disks so as to avoid DCL math
> 
> +1
> 
> Not having to stuff around with non existent decimal support in DCL 
> would be great

Or adding floating point into DCL.  But then this still tracks back 
toward how much anybody really wants to deal with the DCL morass both 
from the VSI end and from the existing pile of legacy DCL everywhere, 
and whether stepping back, leaving DCL more or less alone save for 
fixes, and replacing DCL with something that incorporates what we've 
learned since the 1970s makes more sense.   If there are conversion 
tools and a plan for deprecation, all the better.


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