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

[Hunter Goatley]

I'm late to the party, but command recall was introduced in VAX/VMS 
V4.0, and it was limited to 20 commands.

I wrote an article for VAX PROFESSIONAL that covered a program I wrote 
to allow you to save, restore, and flush the command recall buffer:

https://hunter.goatley.com/vax-professional-articles/vax-pro-02/

I also wrote a program that was included in my FILESERV and in the DECUS 
SIG tapes that would patch DCL to extend the number of entries up to 62.

DCL_RECALL is still on my FILESERV:

https://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv_search.exe?package=recall&description=&author=&system=Either&language=All&RD=&RM=&RY=

It was eventually obsoleted when OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 was released and 
some version of VAX (probably V6). They finally extended the buffer size.

Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, Process Software, goathunter at goatley.com