[Info-vax] DCL enhancements

[Jon Pinkley]

On Monday, January 25, 2021 at 12:05:38 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-01-25 13:40:25 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said: 
> 
> > What about some easy-to-implement DCL enhancements? 
> > 
> > With PURGE/CONFIRM, there is Y, N, and A. Why not R, for "rest", which 
> > would be A but only for the current file name and extension, then it 
> > would ask again for the next one?
> Or set the default version limit to one on all volumes newly 
> initialized, maybe fix the inexplicable SYS$SCRATCH default of 
> SYS$LOGIN, and force the user to enable and accept the costs and messes 
> of multiple versions manually. 

Hoff, I am tempted to ask if there is anything about VMS you do like.

And setting the version to one is really an autopurge, it still creates new 
version numbers that will eventually get to ;32767 and then possibly cause
problems.  The point is ODS is not NTFS or some unix/linux versionless file
system.  And there are many vms applications that rely on versions.

I agree there are many things that could be done better than the way that 
VMS does things.  My pet peeve is how much user involvement is needed for 
updating and trying to determine dependencies. windows and linux make 
that much easier and less error prone.