Re: Purpose of uppercasing a RUN command ?

In article <OF7A40D9CD.6262BD35-ON85257229.004B367E-85257229.004B9753@xxxxxxxxx>, norm.raphael@xxxxxxxxx writes:
I have no particular insights, but ISTM that since it is possible to
SET PROCESS/PARSE=EXTENDED with ODS5, then this may guarantee a match.


SET PROCESS/PARSE=EXTENDED on it's own will preserve case but will access
files in a case insensitive manner.

SET PROCESS/CASE_LOOKUP=SENSITIVE

would be needed to do case sensitive file accesses.

But then they could have just written the commands in
uppercase

ie

RUN SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$SMTP_RECEIVER.EXE



David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University



JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/17/2006 06:12:44 AM:

Found this jewel in the SYS$SYSTEM directory:

$ run:
$ run 'f$edit("sys$system:tcpip$smtp_receiver.exe","upcase")'


Since this is written supposedly by people part of VMS engineering (or
perhaps "formerly part of" due to downsizing), I have to ask if there is
any justification for the above from a DCL/VMS engineering point of view.

Also found
$ set :=

Is this a strict equivalent to DELETE/SYMBOL/LOCAL SET ?


Another qestion: the same command procedure that has the fancy run
command,
also has this:

$ serv_id = f$edit("tcpip$smtp","upcase")
$ serv_home = f$edit("sys$specific:[''serv_id']","upcase")


(these constructs are used in the TCPIP$*.COM files throughout
SYS$SYSTEM:)

Were these files generated using some DCL generation tool that perhaps
converts the Tru64 scripts ?

I keep wondering why the TCPIP engineers wrote those procedures in those
ways.

.

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