[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/7/2022 8:16 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-11-06, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>> On 11/6/22 12:50 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 11/6/2022 12:23 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> Not sure what you dislike about batch log files ...
>>> I dislike the default location. I would very much prefer
>>> them to go to either dir with com file or current dir when
>>> submitting instead of sys$login.
>>
>> The user in many common scenarios does not have write access to either
>> of those locations.
> 
> And in the second example, even when you do have write access, that means
> the log files would be created all over the place within the directory tree
> instead of in one known location. Yuck!!! :-)

I guess there are two ways to structure ones files:
- by type, com & exe files one dir (possible with subdirs
   per application), data files one dir, log files one dir
- by application, one dir per application with everything
   com & exe and data and log files (possible with a subdir
   per type)

I prefer the second.

>>> And I dislike that /PRINT is default.
>>
>> Amen!
> 
> Now that is one thing I _strongly_ agree with. It's about 30 years
> later than it should have been for that to be switched to /NOPRINT
> by default. Yes, it's an incompatible change. Yes, it's worth it.
> 
> VSI: If you want to change that default to /NOPRINT, then you would
> strongly have my support. :-)
> 
> Here's a related question: Should /NOTIFY be the default on batch jobs
> instead of the current /NONOTIFY ?

Makes sense to me.

Arne