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

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In article <7a88c8ac-422c-4389-87c4-b0c2b7824217n at googlegroups.com>, gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu> writes:
>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.

???

Short of where DCL reads its input (terminal or file via an RMS $GET), I don't
see why/where processing should be any different.



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

<thumbs-up>

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