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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <m9u3ak$8ig$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 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 ....

All this just makes me more curious.  Y'all say the use of "<" and ">"
was derived from RSX.  Well, if RSTS came out in 1970 and RSX didn't
show up until 1973 and RSTS used "[" and "]", why did RSX change this
only to have it go back in VMS?

bill

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