[Info-vax] A DCL wish list of sorts...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-03-20, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2019-03-20 18:35:07 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>
>> In article <q6tqor$90t$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
>> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> 
>>> No menuing support in DCL, for instance.
>> 
>> Many have written menus in DCL, though.
>
> Many badly-written menus exist, yes.  Some exist within OpenVMS itself. 
>  Some of those many menus around still feature the DCL equivalent of an 
> XSS flaw, too.

:-)

I can well believe it.

As for me, I wouldn't mind seeing VSI follow through on their plans
to remove all access to program privileges from supervisor mode code,
especially given that we are talking about "the world's most secure
operating system."

Simon.

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