[Info-vax] SET SHADOW SYNTAX

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <j7oj15$s9o$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt
<gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes: 

> > One could parse this as implying that parentheses are always required,
> > but OTOH if there is only one required keyword, and one specifies only
> > that keyword, then it is not a list (is a list of one thing still a
> > list?) or at least I would expect the behaviour to be consistent with 
> > AFAIK all of DCL.
> 
> I don't remember trying this with DCL, but that is the way
> that IBM JCL works.  If only the first subparameter, then no 
> parens, otherwise parens.
> 
>    LABEL=(,NL)  DISP=OLD, DISP=(,KEEP) VOL=SER=MYDISK

AFAIK, DCL always works this way, except with SET SHADOW.