[Info-vax] Was the RECALL command limited to 8 entries in a much earlier version of OpenVMS?

[abrsvc]

On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 7:16:33 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <be211299-a4cf-41c9... at googlegroups.com>,
> "alanfe... at gmail.com" <alanfe... at gmail.com> writes: 
> 
> > Maybe it was limited to 24? 
> > 
> > I have a comment in my TO.COM saying I was using READ SYS$COMMAND 
> > instead of INQUIRE to avoid putting things in the RECALL buffer. So what 
> > were its limits long ago? Probably pre-2000.
> Maybe for security reasons rather than limited length?
I don't recall when the limit was changed, but yes there was a limit to the number of commands available.

Dan