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

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> David Froble skrev den 2015-01-23 10:26:
>> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> If I wanted a job, I'd ask for one ...
>>
>>>  Second, I have now given an example. Third, I assumed that most people
>>> already new this.
>>>
>> You shirley know what happens when you ass u me ...
>>
>> Nope, didn't know it.
> 
> Also note that european (at least swedish) keyboards has the <>
> chars much more reachable then the []. On a US layout, the []
> are two single keys, right? For me it is AltGr-8 and AltGr-9.
> 
> US: http://ascii-table.com/img/keyboard-103P.png
> SE: http://ascii-table.com/img/keyboard-153.png
> 
> So wheither one has seen the PIPE problem or not might has some
> to so with what directory delimiters you are used to use.
> 
> Besides of that, I thought that the <> problem with PIPE
> was, if not well, so at least known.
> 
> Jan-Erik.

Other than maybe one time just to see them work, I've never used <>, and 
so never had the problem.  I also wasn't aware there were keyboards that 
were much different.  But, we all know, I don't get out much ....