[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 12:20:56 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2016-06-26 15:39:57 +0000, John Reagan said:
> 
> > It might have to do with some DECC$ logicals I set.
> 
> Nuke those from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure those logical 
> names won't continue to derail unrelated applications.
> 

We are doing some CRTL work right now (adding stdint.h, adding missing stuff to other headers, untangling the mess inside math.h, etc.).  There are about 1/3rd of the logicals that I'm tempted to remove and pick a 'mandatory default'.  I don't think anybody would know (but then again, those probably aren't the ones screwing people over).

And some, like this one being discussed, should have never seen the light of day.  A new feature was added to the CRTL to make access() smarter.  Most folks might even call it a bug fix (I would).  Why make it default to 'off'?  Why give you the option to return to the old behavior?  We don't invent logical names in other areas to selectively un-do a bug fix!  At the minimum, I'll make sure the default for this one turns into 'enabled' (which is what I assumed it would be all along).