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

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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? 
> 

Excellent question ...

Be afraid of the answer.  Be very afraid ....