[Info-vax] DCL enhancements

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In article <388edf53-8ba9-4f66-aa86-00e6c6b1be4bn at googlegroups.com>, Jon Pinkley <jon.pinkley at gmail.com> writes:
>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.

Purge and rename them back to start at ;1.

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