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From: BROSSEAU%SECAD1@ENGVAX.SCG.HAC.COM ("LISA M. BROSSEAU")
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Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 12:57:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 12:57:00 1987
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Hello,

I recently discovered a couple of bugs in VMS and thought someone
out there might like to know about them.

1) A different problem with the set term command:

   If your terminal is set up as a vt100 type terminal in your login.com
   with set term/dev=vt100 and you then do a set term/inquire (for whatever
   reason -- to put yourself back to vt220 or 240 mode) and then do
   a set term/dev=vt100 again (we need vt100 mode to use telenet to our
   unix vax so that <CR> works) Eightbit remains set -- which should
   not be the case for a Vt100.  With Eightbit set the <CR> for telnet
   does not work.  Dec says this was a bug with one of their other
   terminal types.  It sounds to me like they have alot of bugs in
   their set term command.

2) A problem with copying directories:

   Ocassionally I need to move a user from one disk to another to  balance out
   the disk load.  I do all the necessary stuff in Authorize and Diskquota to
   set the user up for the other disk and then proceed to copy their files to
   their new location.  I found that if you use the following copy command
   to copy the tree to another tree on another disk or the same disk the
   following problem occurs.

   $ CRE/DIR DISK$USER2:[USERX]
   $ COPY DISK$USER1:[USERX...]*.*.* DISK$USER2:[USERX...]*.*.*


   If the first entry in the top level of the tree is a directory you will get
   an illegal directory copy attempted error.  If the first , second, third
   and forth ... entries are directories you will get errors on all of
   them... It is not until a file is copied that Copy will allow you to
   copy a dir file over.  After a data file is copied any dir that occurs
   is copied fine.  Backup would probably work as a work around , but I
   think copy should be fixed.  I am running 4.4 but DECs software support
   people reproduced the problem on 4.5.


   I hope these descriptions make sense and maybe answer some questions for
   someone out there.


   Lisa Brosseau
   Hughes Aircraft Company
   Newport Beach  CA