[Info-vax] Suggested enhancement: bypass symbol definitions when executing DCL commands

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <s93h3h$571$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> On 2021-05-31 19:56:32 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
> 
> > In article <s938qc$7ed$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> > <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> > 
> >> I wonder if we could have something like this for VMS DCL ?
> > 
> > I've known about a trailing underscore for decades.
> 
> There's no trailing-underscore syntax in DCL—any more than there's 
> actually really any leading underscore syntax in logical name support 
> with V4.0 and later—there's just stuff appended to the command that 
> gets ignored by the parser but that also suppresses symbol matches.

Right.  But it works.  :-)