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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/10/2022 7:19 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <tkk3rr$em$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> Consider the fact that the user submitting the file might not have write
>>> permission to the current directory or to the directory where the
>>> procedure is located, but very probably does to SYS$LOGIN.
>>
>> Not having write access to the dir must be a special case.
> 
> I don't know.  Certainly there are environments where there is some
> official software or whatever where normal users are not allowed to
> write.  Think SYS$SYSTEM.  Should every user have access there?  Think
> of a company's software package in some directory.  Same thing.

I am not saying that such cases does not exist - I am just saying that
they must be rare.

I don't expect many users to SUBMIT COM files residing in SYS$SYSTEM.

And the two most common cases for software packages must be
system wide install with any batch job started by SYSTEM and
user installs in the users dir tree started by that user.

Leaving only the more unusual cases.

Arne