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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <00AF19E2.752BED48 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> >>    We got the PIPE command so that |, <, and > don't break anything.
> >>    The last thing we need is a more cryptic way to break things.
> >
> >PIPE breaks <DIRECTORY>.  :-|
> 
> In what way?

Stupid example to illustrate the problem:

$ pipe dir disk$user:<helbig> | sea sys$pipe login
%DCL-W-INCREDSYN, incomplete redirection syntax; supply missing file parameter

The parser thinks that ">" is the output-redirection token for PIPE, 
rather than part of the directory specification.  I can see where that 
is coming from, but I think PIPE could be modified to see if matched <> 
is part of a directory spec.

And, yes, it is "incomplete redirection syntax" and not "incredible 
syntax".  :-)