Re: despair

On Sep 16, 5:03 pm, "David P. Murphy" <dpm_goo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 16, 8:39 am, AEF <spamsink2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So why don't you ask why the ALLOCATE command
only gives a W when it fails?

In the second place, because Digital ^W Compaq ^W HP
isn't going to change it. In the third place, even

You're "buddy" isn't going to change your bad code snippet either. And
now we know even you aren't going to change it due to mgmt.

if they did, it wouldn't matter to most sites for a
long time, so you'd still have to check for W anyway.

And in the *first* place, because W is good enough,
either an ON WARNING beforehand or testing $STATUS after.

ok
dpm

What about the fact that

$ DIR/VERS=2 file

takes long enough to find, but not displya, all n versions, not just
the first two?

What about another resource waster:

$ DIR:==DIR/DATE/SIZE/PROT

$ DIR/TOTAL blah

$ DIRECTORY/TOTAL blah

Assuming DIRECTORY is not a symbol, if you time the two TOTAL
commands, you'll see that the former takes a lot longer to run than
the latter.

Hey, as great as VMS is, it isn't perfect. And I think failure to
allocate should AT LEAST be an E error. It clearly didn't do what you
asked at all. How could that not be an error? A warning is for when
what you asked was done, but something there's something you may not
have expected that may or may not be a problem happened and you are
being WARNED about it. I think the line between E and F is somewhat
blurrier.

[Maybe some of these were fixed since VMS V6.2.]

AEF


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