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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <m9t9pj$jh2$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> 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.

Right.  You really want the North-American LK layout for VMS.

> So wheither one has seen the PIPE problem or not might has some
> to so with what directory delimiters you are used to use.

Normally, I don't use <> at all for directories, just [], which is 
quicker on a proper keyboard.  But I do use <> rather than AltGr-X if 
forced to work on a bad keyboard.