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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/1/2021 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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. :-)

So you do want some symbols.

:-)

$ set symbol/scope=notable

to disable symbols that shadows verbs in dcltables?

:-)

Arne