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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2022-11-12 00:37:23 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:

> 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.

Causing logs to be directed into a non-writable directory, or parking a 
;32767 version in an otherwise-writable directory, was and remains a 
fairly common hack to shut off certain stupid defaults.

DECnet netserver log files were routinely set to ;32767 in some 
environments, for instance.


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