[Info-vax] VGIT for VMS x86-64 - failed to make .git directory

[Chris Townley]

On 10/05/2023 16:25, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-05-10 00:40, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 09/05/2023 23:37, Dave Froble wrote:
> 
>>> One needs to be a bit competent to do things, though, obscure 
>>> messages are never acceptable.
>>>
>>>> Compatibility is a harsh default, particularly when the costs of 
>>>> compatibility
>>>> are shifted to new work and not onto under- or unmaintained apps. 
>>>> Trade-offs
>>>> between short term and long term are never fun choices.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Quite so.
>>>
>>
>> I haven't checked on VMS 9.2-1 but the defaults for initialising a 
>> disk have been unusable for a very long time
> 
> Defaults for initializing a disk aren't even that usable on RSX... :-)
> You always want to override some of them.
> 
>    Johnny
> 

They weren't much use on VAXes either.

I remember having to backup, reinitialise and restore disks on 8530, and 
4000s many times.

-- 
Chris