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Please, I hope this is a thing. If not, I'll code the implementation.
by malux85 6y ago
Please, I hope this is a thing. If not, I'll code the implementation.
- 082349872349872 6y agoLooks like it ought to still be a thing: http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/vax/opsys/vmsos73/vmsos73/6489/6489pro_005.html http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/odl/vax/opsys/vmsos73/vmsos73/648... > "You can abbreviate a command as long as the abbreviated name remains unique among the defined commands on a system. DCL looks only at the first four characters for uniqueness." and since max command line length seems to be a few K, the masochistic could try instead: $ DISCIPLINEOFPROGRAMMING (are there any other 1976 things in the equivalence set of DISCONNECT?)
- unixhero 6y agoWhat is this thing? What is this for?
- geraldcombs 6y agoDCL is VMS's command line interface. Commands start with full-on verbs (set, copy, define, print, ...). You can use partial strings in commands as long as they are unique (e.g. "set def" instead of "set default"). Imagine being able to type "pyth" at a bash prompt and it running python. What I think the previous posts are referring to (and which I don't remember from my DCL days) is that apparently DCL only checks the first four characters for uniqueness, so "disc", "discoduck" and "discgolf" match the "disconnect" command.