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

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In article <m9stc2$20s6$3 at news.kjsl.com>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
>In article <m9ro85$973$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
><davef at tsoft-inc.com> 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?
>> > 
>> 
>> Would be nice if people included an example when such statements are 
>> made, huh?
>
>First, exercise for the reader.  Second, I have now given an example.  
>Third, I assumed that most people already new this.

Fourth, I assumed that mode people already (k)new that VMS directory syntax
uses brackets too!

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