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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-12-21 11:56:11 +0000, alanfe... at gmail.com said:

> 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.

INQUIRE has various issues, not the least of which is pollution of the 
command-line recall buffer with random input rubbish; pollution of the 
shell history.

The ability of INQUIRE to execute certain DCL commands within the 
context of prompt input is another issue.

Any use of INQUIRE is blocked in some security-relevant contexts.

Alas, the command is still around and still occasionally used and still 
occasionally causing problems and still polluting the users' recall 
buffers.


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