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From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VERB program (was: VMS_SECURITY)
Message-ID: <45rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 19 Dec 87 18:45:16 GMT
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I have to give a very solid vote FOR the note by Jamie Hanrahan.  The only
thing more agravating than having to work on two systems which managers
have decided to "rearrange" just to suit their own taste, is a system manager
(the likes of which I've encountered and yould have liked to shoot every
day of every month I used a system managed by him) whose tastes seemed to
change daily. Changing the names of commands, queues, and the defaults taken
by qualifiers (have you ever spawned and had a system manager helpfully
make the /NOWAIT qualifier default?).  What users do for themselves in making
commands more convenient is fine.  They made the definitions themselves
and can even port them or learn to live without them.  But a system manager's
only function in defining the DCL environment should be to add new things that
THE USER CANNOT GET IN ANY OTHER WAY.  Defining sd to set default should
NEVER be done in the system login procedure.