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Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.spitfire.i.gajendra.net!not-for-mail From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Local Versus Global Command Options Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:53:17 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: <vp5jsd$j2u$1@reader2.panix.com> References: <volt3s$33lo1$1@dont-email.me> <vp3hlk$n28$1@reader2.panix.com> <vp3mel$1m224$1@dont-email.me> <67b647c3$0$712$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:53:17 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="spitfire.i.gajendra.net:166.84.136.80"; logging-data="19550"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Bytes: 2181 Lines: 36 In article <67b647c3$0$712$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote: >On 2/18/2025 11:24 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote: >> On 2/18/2025 10:03 PM, Dan Cross wrote: >>> I am utterly baffled as to why you continue to regularly >>> engage with this troll. It's your choice, of course, but >>> getting the backsplatter is unpleasant for rest of us who >>> have already plonked him. >> >> +1! > >I have a different perspective. > > [snip] > >But it is definitely on topic for c.o.v/I-V. > >And maybe (just maybe) it is useful for a current or a future reader. > >I do not care much about who raised the question. It doesn't change >being on topic or potential usefulness. Be that as it may, the person you are responding to, and that you regularly interact with at length, has shown repeatedly that he is not acting in good faith. Technical answers to technical questions, and even spirited debates with vigorous disagreement, are all well and good as long as all parties are at least attempting to honor a collegial spirit of cooperation. But in this case, as with most cases involving Lawrence, the base conditions in which to have the discussion are simply not met. This is the sort of thing that ought to be in an FAQ. - Dan C.