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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/31/2021 1:42 PM, Hans Bachner wrote:
> Chris Townley schrieb am 31.05.2021 um 16:51:
>> On 31/05/2021 13:53, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> If you enter the extra characters, and they are wrong, then the command
>>> should be outright rejected.

>> It was sometimes useful to add an incorrect character to avoid a 
>> symbol definition - for example deletes
> 
> It still is useful. If you work at various customers' systems from time 
> to time, with setups varying from customer to customer, it is convenient 
> to type "$ direx /qual1 /qual2" to get displayed exactly the file 
> attributes you want for the files you want to see.
> 
> I never found a customer system with "direx" defined as a symbol, and if 
> it would be defined it wouldn't do much harm. On the other side, most 
> customers have some dir* symbols defined, with and without abbreviaton.
> 
> Similar for other commands like copy etc.

I have used that myself.

But maybe:

$ set symbol/scope=(nolocal,noglobal)

was a valid alternative.

Arne