[Info-vax] Why does this DIFF command fail, then run fine the 2nd time around?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-12-12 06:45:44 +0000, alanfe... at gmail.com said:

>  $ DIFP SCRFELD:[.A.TO_V530]CLEAR_NBACK_LNMS.COM;1 [.B.*]
> ...
> $ SHOW LOG/FUL SCRFELD
>    "SCRFELD" [super] = "DSA2:[USR_SCRATCH.FELDMAN.]" 
> [concealed,terminal] (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
> $

AFAIK, usual preferred command syntax with a concealed rooted logical 
name would be thus:

DIFP SCRFELD:[A.TO_V530]CLEAR_NBACK_LNMS.COM;1 [B.*]

Trailing dot (from the logical name, correctly) and leading dot (from 
the appended directory) passes along some variation of [TOS..A] and 
[TOS..B].

Looks like a dusty corner within the name and default name and 
related-spec parsing, among other dusty corners within filespec parsing.

Shouldn't blow up, but arguably also probably shouldn't work.


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