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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-31, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> 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.
>

Very much _NOT_ the same thing.

Using a trailing underscore in that way is no different than typing
a trailing letter and is as big a hack.

You can't use a trailing underscore after only 3 characters and you have
to type 4 characters before you can append the underscore, just as you do
when appending a letter.

I wonder how much effort it would be to add support for a leading underscore.

Simon.

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