[Info-vax] DCL enhancements

Marc Van Dyck marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be
Tue Jan 26 12:11:14 EST 2021


Dave Froble explained :
> On 1/25/2021 12:22 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <mn.cc377e51882aafd9.104627 at invalid.skynet.be>, Marc Van Dyck
>> <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> writes:
>>
>>> Or a DELETE/DIRECTORY command.
>>
>> DELETE
>>
>>   file
>>
>>     /TREE
>>
>>        Recursively deletes all files and sub directories excluding the
>>        parent directory.
>>
>>        You can specify only the following qualifiers with the /TREE
>>        qualifier:
>>
>>        /ERASE      /GRAND_      /IGNORE     /LOG
>>                    TOTAL
>>        /STYLE
>>
>
> If you issue the proper command, then use ^ and return to repeat the command, 
> a couple of keystrokes does the job.  Why wish for engineers to do the work 
> that just isn't necessary?  I'd much rather see some useful work on VMS.  
> Perhaps numeric range locking in the lock manager so things such ProgresSQL 
> could run on VMs.

Not what I want...

-- 
Marc Van Dyck



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