[Info-vax] SET SHADOW SYNTAX

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In article <j7or5d$d4f$3 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>In article <00AB71FB.10C8E752 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
>@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 
>
>> If its command definition says it's a parenthesized value then you have
>> to supply a parenthesized value!
>
>Right.  I was wondering whether there is any reason to specify a 
>parenthesized value.

Perhaps, to pass the contents within the parenthesis to the internal to
the SETSHOWSHADOW commands LIB$TPARSE parsing tables/routines.  It's one
of the ways to extend command syntax parsing when the CLD mechanism comes
up short.

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