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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <54c26c4a$0$16689$c3e8da3$76a7c58f at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> On 15-01-23 02:30, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 
>> $ pipe dir disk$user:<helbig> | sea sys$pipe login
> 
> 
> Isn't support for <directory> something that dates back fro PDP11 days
> and supported on VMS just to helop that transition ?

   PDP-10. VMS has always had [g,n] syntax as used by most PDP-11 OS.

> I'd say that support for <directory>  could be deprecated and removed in
> a version or two of VMS.

   Why do work to remove an existing capability and therefor break existing
   code?