[Info-vax] Notable VMS "feature"

[gcornelius at charter.net]

Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2016-01-07 20:24:29 +0000, hb said:
> 
>> On 01/07/2016 08:15 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> But you can set bit 1 in the DCL_CTLFLAGS system parameter for your 
>>> next login ? it's dynamic, but DCL doesn't seem to read that except at 
>>> login ? to increase the limit; to 4,000 character tokens.
>> 
>> Isn't
>>   $ set proc/token=extended
>> supposed to do that?
> 
> Could be.  I lose track of the user interface sometimes, what with all 
> the complexibility and compatibility hacks that have been troweled on 
> over the years. [...]

And the whole trailing colon thing as applied to the verbs ASSIGN and
DEASSIGN would appear to be an RSX compatibility hack.