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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/1/2021 8:42 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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?
> 
> :-)

No matter what then I don't see this as a major problem
worth much effort by VSI.

Arne