[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-10-25 kl. 06:28, skrev alanfe... at 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:
>>
>>> 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?"
> [...]
>>
>> Logical names are volatile key-value store design and straight out of
>> ~1984, and long since and widely used and misused.
>>
>> For device redirection, they're adequate.
>>
>> Logical names have had "surprising" edge cases ~forever, too.
>>
>> 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!

There as an EDT patch just a year ago or so from VSI.
Had something with numnber of lines to do, I think...



> 
> 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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