[Info-vax] Local Versus Global Command Options

[Dave Froble]

On 2/21/2025 5:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:42:56 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Is it feasible for DCL?  Sure. Though it'll likely involve passing some
>> of the syntax to lib$table_parse or ilk for parsing, as do a few DCL
>> commands I've encountered (or have written) over the years.
>
> What happens when you bypass DCL? So one program directly spawns another
> and gives it a command to execute. Can the receiving program behave the
> same in that case as if it were invoked from a shell?
>

Well, that depends upon the requirements and design, right?

I've done quite a bit of such, but, I never depended on some set design, never 
even considered it, I designed what I needed and implemented it.

Don't know why anyone would ever do anything else ??????

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