[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.
gah4
gah4 at u.washington.edu
Tue Jan 25 04:35:14 EST 2022
On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 4:51:45 AM UTC-8, VAXman- wrote:
(snip, I wrote)
> >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.
As I remember it, there are some places where you need triple quotes,
in place of regular quotes. I believe it is related to symbols and logical names.
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