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

[Chris Townley]

On 01/06/2021 00:40, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
I agree for a command procedure, but interactively...

Chris