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From: marco@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: net.decus,net.unix,net.usenix
Subject: Re: Favorite operating systems query
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Date: Mon, 23-Jun-86 19:39:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 23 19:39:33 1986
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In article <77@rtgvax.UUCP>, ramin@rtgvax.UUCP (Pantagruel) writes:
> when adding support for some new type of peripheral... And many many more...
> 
> DECnet's user-level interface (as in DCL) is bogus as hell (YOU MEAN
> I HAVE TO TYPE MY PASSWORD ON THE SCREEN EVERYTIME I COPY FILES ACROSS?
> GO PROXY YOURSELF YOUNG MAN!!!). DCL is a joke of a shell (though it's
> File naming syntax is VERY convoluted (there is actually a system call to 
> VALIDATE the syntax of a filename!!!)... And many many more...
> 
	How about " COPY FOO::DBA0:[FOOBAR]FOO.BAR BAR.FOO " ?  No 
passwords....
And one good thing about checking file-names: You can't write
files with control-chars in the names by mistake.

                                                W.rat