On Nov 16, 1:23 pm, Bob Eager <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote: > I went back to using [] when I started using DOS/BATCH on the > PDP-11. Anyone else remember that? Only insofar as DOS/BATCH was used to configure (SYSGEN) RSTS/E versions 5 and older. RSTS/E, also used [P,PN] (project, programmer number) to identify a directory. Cheers, MetaEd