[Info-vax] Extended file spec support on CSWS & PHP7

[hb]

On 8/28/20 8:37 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> But you can't set extended parse in lib$initialize,[1] and without that,
> DECC$ARGV_PARSE_STYLE doesn't do you any good.

I know, but extended parsing is not a DECC feature (and that was the
context) and ...

> [1] You can set it, but it doesn't have any effect on the
> already-running image.

because parsing of the command line was done before the image was
activated, ahem the app was launched. I don't know of any way to ask DCL
to re-parse the command line with the new setting and to re-launch the app.

At least on Alpha and C++ images there are known problems setting the
DECC features in lib$initialize in main, which can be avoided with
lib$initialize in a shareable image.