27 Apr
2000
27 Apr
'00
8:50 a.m.
Allison wrote:
Huh? Angle brackets certainly do still work:
$ DIR/GRAND/SIZ=ALL <...>
Grand total of 7342 directories, 128634 files, 9436890/9477680 blocks.
Roger Ivie
wrote:
No.
$ dir *.?
%DCL-W-PARMDEL, invalid parameter delimiter - check use of special characters
\?\
$
That's interesting. Do angle brackets still work in directory specs?
That is, DIR <...> ? The ? may be a holdover from earlier RSTS, RSX and
RT11.
Huh? Booting into RT-11, I find that the CSI won't even take "?"'s on
a
command line:
Starting system from DU3
RT-11ZM (S) V05.07
.DIR ??????.???
?KMON-F-Invalid command
In RT-11 the single-charcter wildcard is "%".
A similar error message comes from RSX, where the single-character wildcard
is "%" as well. I don't know too much about RSTS (as opposed to RSTS/E).
The only PDP-11 operating system I know that uses "?" for single-character
wildcarding is XXDP (if you want to call it an OS...) DOS-11 might take
it too.
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27 Apr
27 Apr
9:34 a.m.
The only PDP-11 operating system I know that uses
"?" for single-character
wildcarding is XXDP (if you want to call it an OS...) DOS-11 might take
it too.
I'm fairly certain OS/8 does, but I have neither a PDP-8 nor any documentation
handy at the moment to check it out.
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12:23 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:50:59PM -0400, CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
The only PDP-11 operating system I know that uses
"?" for single-character
wildcarding is XXDP (if you want to call it an OS...) DOS-11 might take
it too.
"?" is the single-character wildcard in RSTS. Actually, it's the *only*
true wildcard character in RSTS, "*" is converted to question marks by .FSS.
The .RAD50 value for ? is the same as what RSX/RT call "%" though. But
RSTS already uses "%" as a single-character logical name for [1,4].
DOS/BATCH PIP (V10-03A) doesn't seem to like *either* % or ?, only *, and
it appears to have to occupy the whole field (e.g. *.LDA or EDIT.* are OK
but not E*.LDA). Haven't tried digging through the docs though -- there's
another "phone book"!
John Wilson
D Bit
28 Apr
28 Apr
5:04 a.m.
Holy-Macaroni! I had yesterday off, so I was underneath a 1964
International Harvester 504 Tractor most of the day, replacing the
carbeurator & starter.
And lordy, did I come back to a Christmas morning wealth of VMS
information! Wowzers! I just thought I'd take the time thank everyone here
for all that fantastic info!
Now... does anyone know how to adjust a carbeurator on a '64 IH-504???
;-)
Thanks again!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
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