[Info-vax] Extending nested directory search syntax

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-07-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> It should not break existing functionality, but it is a big change
> to what has to be supported.
>
> [foobar]
> [...]
> [foobar][...]
> [foobar][a][b]
> [foobar][a][b][...]
> [foobar][...][a][b]
>
> And they need to get it right everywhere.
>

All those examples above are just variants of the same thing.

Essentially, this is just a process of concatenating the multiple
directory components into one traditional directory specification.
File specification parsing in VMS is done in a central location
(or locations) and the rest of VMS just uses what it is given.

As such, there are not many places in VMS where support for this
needs to be added, and the end result is a single concatenated
directory string that looks the same as if the user had entered
the a full traditional directory string manually.

Simon.

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