[Info-vax] teo

[Kenneth Fairfield]

On Aug 2, 2:15 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote 2011-08-02 10:55:
>
> > $
> > $ verb inquire
> > define verb INQUIRE
> > cliroutine INQUIRE, cliflags(immediate)
> > prefix CLI$K_INQU_
> > qualifier GLOBAL, nonnegatable
> > qualifier LOCAL, nonnegatable
> > qualifier PUNCTUATION
>
> He he, this was not ment for c.o.v... :-)
>
> But, since everyone now probably asks why I'm looking
> at INQUIRE, here is why :
>
> $
> $ inq tmp "OK? Y/N " /nopunc
> %DCL-W-PARMDEL, invalid parameter delimiter -
>                  check use of special characters
>   \"OK? Y/N " \
>
> $ inq /nopunc tmp "OK? Y/N "
> OK? Y/N Y
>
> $ sh sym tmp
>    TMP = "Y"
> $
>
> There is no sign in the HELP texts that /nopunc is
> position dependent.

I suspect the key is that INQUIRE is a cliroutine,
*and* that it's *old* (been in VMS since forever :-).
As DCL was regularized, not every verb was brought
up to the "standard".  Think SORT.  And BACKUP.

So the fact that /PUNCTUATION is position-dependent
is probably just INQUIRE showing its age...

    -Ken

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