[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] I could never figure out how to get things like
> lowercase characters to be passed cleanly to a VMS program:
> put quotes around them, and the quotes get passed to the
> program as well.

   At the risk of triggering yet another tirade, have you
looked at DECC$ARGV_PARSE_STYLE?

      HELP CRTL Feature_Logical_Names DECC$ARGV_PARSE_STYLE


ALP $ zip -V

zip error: Invalid command arguments (cannot write zip file to terminal)

ALP $ zip -v
Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
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