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

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In article <s9584n$rps$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>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. :-)

It works interactively.  Try it.

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