spain@mdcbbs.com (01/15/90)
Does anyone know how to accept the newsgroup comp.c++ (?). VMS will not allow you to create a directory with the character "+" in it... -- ============================================================= | Harrison M. Spain III | Voice: (714) 952-6114 | | McDonnell Douglas M&E | Internet: spain@mdcbbs.com | | 5701 Katella Ave. | UUCP: uunet!mdcbbs!spain | | Cypress, CA 90630 | PSI: PSI%31060099980019::SPAIN | =============================================================
jeh@simpact.com (01/17/90)
In article <651.25b1b667@mdcbbs.com>, spain@mdcbbs.com writes: > Does anyone know how to accept the newsgroup comp.c++ (?). VMS will not allow > you to create a directory with the character "+" in it... Don't know which version you're running, but News 5.9C is smart enough to recognize VMS-illegal characters in newsgroup names and `escape' them. I tried NEWS> create newsgroup comp.c++ and it failed, but only because the CLI parser expected another parameter after the trailing "+". This NEWS> create newsgroup "comp.c++" worked. The directory created was [...COMP.C_K_K]. (And if you're wondering, an underscore in a newsgroup name becomes two underscores in the directory name.) I note with satisfaction that when NEWS receives a checkgroups message and emits a command procedure (encased in a mail message), the newsgroup names are enclosed in quotes. --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG Internet: jeh@simpact.com, or if that fails, jeh@crash.cts.com Uucp: ...{crash,scubed,decwrl}!simpact!jeh
sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (01/18/90)
In article <651.25b1b667@mdcbbs.com>, spain@mdcbbs.com writes: > Does anyone know how to accept the newsgroup comp.c++ (?). VMS will not allow > you to create a directory with the character "+" in it... Use: NEWS> CREATE NEWSGROUP "COMP.C++" News (or the C library) is smart enough to figure it out. -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444
gih900@CSC.DNET (Geoff Huston) (01/22/90)
>Does anyone know how to accept the newsgroup comp.c++ (?). VMS will not allow >you to create a directory with the character "+" in it... the problem is on DCL parsing: NEWS> CREATE NEWSGROUP "comp.lang.c++" i.e. use "s around the name Geoff Huston
gih900@CSC.DNET (Geoff Huston) (01/22/90)
> > NEWS> create newsgroup "comp.c++" > >worked. The directory created was [...COMP.C_K_K]. (And if you're wondering, >an underscore in a newsgroup name becomes two underscores in the directory >name.) I note with satisfaction that when NEWS receives a checkgroups message >and emits a command procedure (encased in a mail message), the newsgroup names >are enclosed in quotes. > > --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Sometimes I manage to get some of the things right!!! Geoff Huston