[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

gah4 gah4 at u.washington.edu
Thu Jan 20 21:17:12 EST 2022


On Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 10:34:00 AM UTC-8, Simon Clubley wrote:
> This suggestion follows the current discussion about using special 
> characters as data, which shows just how horrible DCL is when it 
> comes to using special characters as data in a command line. 

The one I remember is that quoting on the DCL command line is
different from quoting in COM file of DCL commands.

Seems to be that it should be consistent between them.

But otherwise, I don't see that it should follow Unix escape characters.




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