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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <54bde6b7$0$58715$c3e8da3$88b277c5 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> On 15-01-20 00:12, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> Perform a RECALL/OUT=sys$login:history.log just before LOGOUT, and then 
>> perform a RECALL/INPUT=sys$login:history.log when you next log in. 
> 
> Not quite. History not saved when you don't actually logout (crashed,
> close xterm window etc) and history not "live" shared between different
> windows .

All of my shells on UNIX and Mac screw up the history when
logging from multiple processes at the same time.  You have one
that doesn't?

It's more prevalent in VMS when using network file access, but on any
OS beware of history files containing access information that was typed
on command lines.