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

[Henry Crun]

On 25/01/2022 11:35, gah4 wrote:
> 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.
> 

IIRC if a DCL command file bulds and writes a (sub-)command file that handles symbols, there is use for more than three 
double-quotes. (do I remember groups of six?)

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