[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-09-19 20:53, hb wrote:
> On 09/19/2016 03:48 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> The way Multinet did it (making the file version part of the filename)
>> works pretty well.
>
> Which is how a filename is stored in the ods-2/5 file header, anyway.
> Only directories contain a single file name and (separate) versions.

Not sure how relevant that is. In RSX each directory entry actually 
store the file name and version. If you have two versions, each have 
their own full directory entry.
More to the point is that all file name operations infer a version if 
none were given in the original name. So that you can say "FOO.BAR" and 
a file version is used, meaning the full file name contain parts that 
you did not type. But you can of course also explicitly give the version 
number you are interested in.
Which is quite different from how some other operating systems might 
look at things.

	Johnny