[Info-vax] DCL enhancements

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/25/2021 4:19 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-01-25 20:47:54 +0000, Craig A. Berry said:
> 
>> On 1/25/21 2:39 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>>
>>> You can always redefine sys$scratch to point to a sub-directory of 
>>> sys$login
>>>
>>> Done that for years
>>
>> So have I, but that's not the default, which is what Hoff complained 
>> about.
> 
> The default behavior here is bad.
> 
> Expecting the user and/or the system administrator and/or the app 
> developer to aim the scratch files somewhere else is bad.

Agree.

But I find it hard to see this as a major problem.

> And among those folks that do redirect SYS$SCRATCH, you still own 
> cleanup, which is bad.

Yes. Unless the application does it.

But this is not a unique problem for VMS.

And I typical see much less files to cleanup on VMS than
on some other platforms.

Arne