[Info-vax] DCL Syntax

[Craig A. Berry]

On 8/30/18 6:30 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 7:21:44 AM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:

>> But where *nix uses -r or -R, VMS just uses recursive filespecs. Where
>> you would say grep -R on Unix, you don't say SEARCH/RECURSIVE on VMS --
>> just SEARCH [...].
> 
> Then why not just DELETE [...]*.*;*

That already means something a bit different doesn't it? Changing a
command that does *not* delete non-empty directories into a command that
*does* delete non-empty directories might satisfy the API consistency
police but would probably cause some unwelcome surprises for some folks.