"Brian Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom Wyant wrote:
> >Why not just use 2>&1? No, it's not VMS syntax. _NO_ Unix-style
redirection
> >is VMS syntax.
> According to HELP PIPE PARAMETERS, Unix-style redirection is allowed.
You're right; the PIPE command allows a lot of Unixy-style stuff. But
unless you use the PIPE command you don't have it. My reply was intended to
address the functionality of DCL itself, but I certainly didn't make that
clear.
My point was that (e.g.)
$ directory >foo.bar
won't do anything useful. Brian's is that
$ pipe directory >foo.bar
DOES work. It's the opposite of the usual aphorism. In theory there's a big
difference (the functionality of DCL versus the functionality of a program
running under DCL) but in practice the difference is five characters.
Tom Wyant
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