Favorite operating systems query

Lord Kahless ccrdave at ucdavis.UUCP
Sat Jun 21 17:11:06 AEST 1986


> 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

It's trivial to write a DCL command procedure to read in the password
for a DECNET copy without echoing it or retaining a history of it.
Be fair.  Learn what the system can and can't do before saying what
it can't do.



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