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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-23 20:44:51 +0000, David Froble said:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> Or any .><, .>[, .]<, >[, ]<. etc...  Problems?  Donno.  There's 
>> undoubtedly some customer code around that parses that stuff, and that 
>> would trip up.
> 
> Me .. Me .. Me ..  I can answer this one.
> 
> There most definitely are such routines in use.

Probably best to transplant those over to sys$parse, as scheduling permits.

It'd be nice if there was an API for dealing with specifications and 
common directory navigation operations[1] in a simple and consistent 
fashion, and simpler to use than sys$parse or the wrappers that many of 
us use around that call.

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[1] Locally, these are usually involving going up a directory level [-] 
or more, or appending [.somedirectory] or more to the specified 
directory, or fetching the base name.  Probably also something for 
filenames akin to the nodename-fitting API that many folks (also) don't 
tend to know about, too.

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