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Re:Ask HN: Why is the dot/period character used as file exte... by mveety on Friday August 29, 2014 @09:37AM (#8242397)
VMS also used the semicolon to do version information if you're interfacing with DCL or DECWindows (or NFS I think too). The dot was also used as the directory separator. In VMS land your path would look something like (in the case of my login.com): DSA0:[USERS.MVEETY]LOGIN.COM;5
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the dot/period character used as file exte... by productionQA on Friday August 29, 2014 @03:35PM (#8244180)
My company still uses VMS today. This:

DSA0:[USERS.MVEETY]LOGIN.COM;5

Looks all too familiar to me :-/ I even still have to write some DCL from time to time!

I swear we are going to be the last one's off this system.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the dot/period character used as file exte... by atsaloli on Friday August 29, 2014 @07:48PM (#8245051)
VMS isn't dead yet.

HP just licensed VMS to vmssoftware.com:

http://www.vmssoftware.com/news/announcement/faq.pdf

Roadmap: http://www.vmssoftware.com/news/announcement/RM/VMS_Software...

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