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

Phillip Helbig undress to reply helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
Sat Jan 24 21:23:21 EST 2015


In article <00AF1B41.A35F3528 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> >> I'd say that support for <directory>  could be deprecated and removed in
> >> a version or two of VMS.
> >
> >Do INSTALL LIST and come back.  
> 
> Nothing wrong there.  Get it through your head, it is PIPE that is  broken.
> 
> Keep the unix syntax where it belongs. ;)

I agree!  Of course the problem is with the PIPE command.  There was 
never any claim that anything is wrong with the DIRECTORY command, only 
that PIPE has a problem with <> as delimiters for a directory.




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