[Info-vax] DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/18/15 3:19 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

> 8) You cannot delete a directory tree in one go.

DELETE/TREE was added in 8.4 but DFU DELETE/TREE is much better and has
been available for some time. Unfortunately the latter requires
privileges over and above ownership of the directory tree involved.

> 9) differences is very limited by today's standards. The functionality
> in GNU diff, with (for example) it's ability to find differences in
> whole directory trees and produce patch files for the differences
> in an entire tree, should be the minimum baseline for functionality
> these days.
>
> I also find the unified diff output to be a _lot_ more readable than
> the output from the DCL differences command.

Agreed. That's why I've been using GNU diff on VMS quite a lot for the
last fifteen years or so.