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

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 4:43:34 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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$COMMAND 
> > instead of INQUIRE to avoid putting things in the RECALL buffer. So 
> > what were its limits long ago? Probably pre-2000.
> INQUIRE has various issues, not the least of which is pollution of the 
> command-line recall buffer with random input rubbish; pollution of the 
> shell history. 
> 
> The ability of INQUIRE to execute certain DCL commands within the 
> context of prompt input is another issue. 
> 
> Any use of INQUIRE is blocked in some security-relevant contexts. 
> 
> Alas, the command is still around and still occasionally used and still 
> occasionally causing problems and still polluting the users' recall 
> buffers. 
> 
> 
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Thanks for the tip! Looks like I got it right, keeping READ SYS$COMMAND in my procedures. OK.  (^_^(