On 7/8/2021 8:13 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
(and for Hans, the VMS ";" version specification is a different
feature).
Sure, one being that one ran out of disk space (but there were enough
unused accounts with simple passwords to take care of backups) but it
would add an interesting challenge (probably some extra parameter in
opening a file).
(btw, no tex on these vax machines, pretty unknown at that time so we
rolled out our own ascii-art formatting / pagination)
Hans
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