[Info-vax] Can DCL be enhanced to report why a qualifier is ambiguous ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-05-27 18:57:23 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> I've mentioned this before, but it would be really nice if DCL could be 
> enhanced to list all the possible candidates in the error message if 
> you enter an ambiguous keyword.

Pending any hypothetical and unannounced future changes to DCL, the 
following might be useful for writing scripts^Wcommand procedures: 
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/dcl_check/

> An increasing number of Linux utilities do this, and it's a very nice feature.

So too are command completion and filename completion capabilities.

DCL itself needs work. But that's been discussed before.


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