Favorite operating systems query

[the wharf rat]

In article <77 at rtgvax.UUCP>, ramin at rtgvax.UUCP (Pantagruel) writes:
> when adding support for some new type of peripheral... And many many more...
> 
> DECnet's user-level interface (as in DCL) is bogus as hell (YOU MEAN
> I HAVE TO TYPE MY PASSWORD ON THE SCREEN EVERYTIME I COPY FILES ACROSS?
> GO PROXY YOURSELF YOUNG MAN!!!). DCL is a joke of a shell (though it's
> File naming syntax is VERY convoluted (there is actually a system call to 
> VALIDATE the syntax of a filename!!!)... And many many more...
> 
	How about " COPY FOO::DBA0:[FOOBAR]FOO.BAR BAR.FOO " ?  No 
passwords....
And one good thing about checking file-names: You can't write
files with control-chars in the names by mistake.

                                                W.rat