[Info-vax] DCL enhancements

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ruucpk$hb6$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2021-01-28, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> > In article <rut0im$1oc6$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> >>On 1/27/2021 11:00 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >>> In article <388edf53-8ba9-4f66-aa86-00e6c6b1be4bn at googlegroups.com>, Jon Pinkley <jon.pinkley at gmail.com> writes:
> >>>> And setting the version to one is really an autopurge, it still creates new
> >>>> version numbers that will eventually get to ;32767 and then possibly cause
> >>>> problems.  The point is ODS is not NTFS or some unix/linux versionless file
> >>>> system.  And there are many vms applications that rely on versions.
> >>> 
> >>> Purge and rename them back to start at ;1.
> >>
> >>$ clean :== pipe purge ; rename *.* /excl=*.*.1 *.*.1
> >
> > Try that with PURGE/KEEP=n (eg. n = 5)
> >
> 
> I do like Arne's use of .1 to get around the semicolon problem however. :-)

Honour thy error as a hidden intention.  :-)

Things like this come in handy.  When forced to use a keyboard with a 
VMS-unfriendly layout, I routinely use <> instead of [].  However, that 
can be a problem with pipe.