[Info-vax] Reopen OPERATOR.LOG from batch?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-09-09 20:28:56 +0000, Jan-Erik Söderholm said:

> So, how does that ranting help me close and reopen OPERATOR.LOG?

You've already gotten your answer, as was stated.

Commenting about this and about other user interface messes might drag 
some of this forward.

Blithely accepting user interface design messes... won't.

Having to futz with I/O redirection for common operations is a hack.

And that this isn't in the REPLY documentation* is silly.

Blithely accepting incomplete documentation won't help the next person 
that steps on this DCL OPCOM turd, either.

You've been working with OpenVMS decades, and you were not able to sort 
this out.

What chance does a new user have?

It's not like this case doesn't arise on most any OpenVMS server**.

That is what I'm "ranting" about.

The future of the platform.




*An unfortunately common response to a UI design mess in general, 
rather than actually fixing the UI mess.

**I don't expect to see automatic log-rolling mechanisms arise on 
OpenVMS any time soon.


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