[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 12:22:44 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-10-22 06:45:02 +0000, alanfe... at gmail.com said: 
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> > This used to be broken. Strange things would happen under certain 
> > conditions, like only the directory being changed or the directory 
> > being hidden in sys$disk. It appears to be fixed on EISNER. Is there 
> > documentation of this fix somewhere? I've been searching on the web, 
> > only to come up empty. TIA! (^_^(
> *You rang?* 

Yep! That was the best part of the show, no? When Lurch would suddenly turn into the scene seemingly out of nowhere and say, "You rang?"
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> Logical names are volatile key-value store design and straight out of 
> ~1984, and long since and widely used and misused. 
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> For device redirection, they're adequate. 
> 
> Logical names have had "surprising" edge cases ~forever, too. 
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> The whole of the default directory stuff cited is just utterly 
> hilarious, but that design is just too entrenched to ever be fixed and 
> the existing stuff deprecated and removed. 

But Hoff, it _was_ fixed! Looks like no one knows when or what version of VMS it was fixed in. 

Here's a bonus question. When was EDT updated to allow more than 22 lines? IDK, but it's made me happy!

Bonus No. 2: In what version of VMS was "Proactive Reclamation of Memory from Idle Processes" introduced? This one I found on my own. Turns out it was v5.4-3. Made a big difference in my main system at the time!
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