[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ojvu1v$85q$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> [regarding CDC NOS]
>>For the benefit of those of us who have never had to use this
>>environment, can you describe how you would carry out some
>>common tasks using this environment, so we can compare the
>>syntax (and semantics) to the syntax/semantics used on VMS or Unix ?
> 
> It's a matter of verb,noun,noun.  So to copy a file from X to Y,
> you would type:
> 
> COPY,X,Y.
> 
> Unless it was a binary file in which case you would do
> 
> COPYBF,X,Y.
> 

   Compare to RSX (and VMS) PIP, and (IIRC) TOPS-10, where you just had to
   think like a programmer:

      A.DAT=B.DAT+C.DAT

   That copies B.DAT into the new file A.DAT, then appends C.DAT to the
   end of A.DAT.