[Info-vax] Very simple DCL question

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <80b26bd3-9e9a-4b1c-9556-0b64648b4ef0n at googlegroups.com>, "cao... at pitbulluk.org" <caoimhe at pitbulluk.org> writes:
> On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 4:45:45 PM UTC, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > $ type z.com 
> > $ write sys$output "''p1'" 
> > $ @z a 
> > A 
> > $ @z "a" 
> > a 
> > 
> > This is not really surprising. 
> > 
> > But are there any way to preserve pn case without 
> > double-quoting it? 
> > 
> > Like this hypothetical syntax: 
> > 
> > $ set proc/parse=(extended,pnkeepcase) 
> > 
> > Arne
> 
> Taking z.com, for really simple single-parameter stuff, we used to:
> 
> $ z == "@z """    (that's three double-quotes at the end)
> then
> $ z fff aaa bbb
> fff aaa bbb

Which makes use of the undocumented "feature" that one can sometimes 
leave off the trailing double-quote.