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From: billw@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (William E. Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: making VMS better... filelist specification generalization
Message-ID: <1187@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 18:42:55 EST
Article-I.D.: navajo.1187
Posted: Mon Dec  8 18:42:55 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Dec-86 03:37:10 EST
References: <1784@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: Stanford University
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Summary: sigh...

In article <1784@ncoast.UUCP>, btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) writes:
> It just occurred to me today that DEC could make VMS friendlier by simply
> generalizing their filespec for a list of files
> to include "@filespec", where filepec would be the spec of a file that has
> a list of filespecs one to a line:

But that would make VMS look more like tops20!
they would never do that!

BillW