RE: progress report on piping on VMS

[Charles Bailey]

> So what do we do?  Some options:
>     1.  use vmsish 'messages'       off by default   -> no VMS messages
>     2.  use ???    '?quietude?'     off by default   -> VMS messages
>     3.  use vmsish 'messages'       ON by default (violating Dan's rule)
> 
> I don't think the ??? should be "unixish". We're not playing in their
> sandbox, we shouldn't use their namespace.  But it beats me what pragma
> name we could use that is sensible, off by default, and implies getting
> the VMSish error messages.  Time to hit the thesaurus.

It's a bit technical, but we could say

    use vmsish 'inhib_msg'

I still like the 'messages', on by default, best -- I wonder how strongly
Larry feels about the principle?

Regards,
Charles Bailey  [EMAIL PROTECTED]