[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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