[Info-vax] Very simple DCL question

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2023-01-01 16:03:05 +0000, Jan-Erik Sderholm said:

> Is it a mixup between number of COM file parameters and number of 
> sub-directoy levels?

I've definitely been known to be forgetful, and worse, but I'm pretty 
sure DCL supports P1 to P16 as of OpenVMS V8.4  See the DCL dictionary 
@ doc, and see my other recent reply here.

Also pretty sure the directory depths on ODS-5 now max out at 255, and 
not 8 or 16. See the ODS-5/EFS doc: "There can be up to 255 levels of 
directories. The name of each directory can be up to 236 8-bit or 118 
16-bit characters long..."

>From an earlier discussion of the DCL P1 to P16 parameter support: 
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/KjlzbRje4go/m/ab3NOE7ZDRoJ

Lots of old code around with old limits, and probably some old doc with 
old limits, too.




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