[Info-vax] Removing the leading $ from commands in a new DCL language

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:

(snip)

> Maybe; I am way open to alternative ideas.
 
> My thoughts were to come up with a way to drop the leading $ from
> commands while retaining the ability to have inline data being fed
> to a program.
 
> I did think the same as you, but I was also wanting to devise some
> mechanism which didn't require the script writer to specify some end
> of data sequence which the script writer needs to know isn't going
> to be seen within the data.

You can already do that.  You only need the $ on the line after
the last input line.  As far as I know, you can put that $ on
a line by itself. 

-- glen