[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

[Bob Koehler]

In article <n7ralh$1mn8$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, hb <end.of at inter.net> writes:
> On 01/21/2016 07:14 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> As I found out the hard way, be careful with delete/tree if you are 
>> working on system with GNV and other UNIX programs and there are
>> hardlinks set on the non-system volume which link back to system 
>> directories.
> 
> Hardlinks, going from the non-system volume to system directories on
> which volume? Or softlinks?
> 
> On the other hand, hardlinks (and softlinks) are independent of "GNV and
> other UNIX programs". They are ODS-5 features. Any VMS user can use them.

   I haven't installed GNV in a long time.  But I do recall a "system
   manager" who didn't use the provided DCL script to delelete an old
   system root on the shared system disk.  Just started something
   like delete [sys10...]*.*;*

   You should see what the host did after sys$system:delete.exe was
   marked for delete.