[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Dave Hayter]

On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 08:59:32 UTC+1, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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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> > AEF 
> >
Damn! What a pity I missed out on the EDT update!  (I retired 18 months ago)
EDT was my favourite editor by a very long way.