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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 5/31/2021 2:10 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> Didn't one of the other DCL implementations (maybe RSTS/E V9 onwards)
>> allow the use of a leading underscore to skip any symbol translations ?
>> 
>> Something like:
>> 
>> $ _dir filename.dat
>> 
>> would get you the "real" dir command without having to worry about
>> symbols.
>> 
>> I wonder if we could have something like this for VMS DCL ?
>
> DCL does have:
>
> $ set symbol/scope=(nolocal,noglobal)
>

Not exactly viable for interactive use unfortunately. :-)

Simon.

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