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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-05-31 19:56:32 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:

> In article <s938qc$7ed$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
>> I wonder if we could have something like this for VMS DCL ?
> 
> I've known about a trailing underscore for decades.

There's no trailing-underscore syntax in DCL—any more than there's 
actually really any leading underscore syntax in logical name support 
with V4.0 and later—there's just stuff appended to the command that 
gets ignored by the parser but that also suppresses symbol matches.



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