[Info-vax] When RENAME doesn't RENAME

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Doc Trins O'Grace <doctrinsograce at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running OpenVMS 8.4 on Itanium.
 
> Start by creating a lowercase filename on an ODS5 disk.
 
> With /CASE_LOOKUP=BLIND, interactively renaming the file to 
> uppercase works as one would expect. However, in a batch job 
> (also with /CASE_LOOKUP=BLIND) the rename does not work.
 
> I take it that RENAME "knows" the process mode. But why would it care?

Remembering from many years ago, quoting works differently in
batch files than interactively.

You don't mention quoting, but as I remember it DCL normally
converts the whole command line to upper case pretty early
if it isn't quoted.

Well, the one I am remembering from about 25 years ago required
triple " for batch files, where only single " were needed on the
command line. 

Maybe someone else can explain it better, though.

-- glen