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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Changes 5A(190) -> 6.0(192) on VMS Alpha V7.1
Date: 8 Dec 1998 18:42:56 GMT
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In article <366D4CDF.6603B5C4@CCAgroup.co.uk>,
Chris Sharman <Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk> wrote:
: VMS doesn't seem to care whether there's space around the '=', although
: if there isn't I have to use \fsubstr(\&@[1],2) to strip the = off the
: first parameter.
:
OK, I'll check this.
: It won't accept either -- or = unless there's other switches or a
: cmdfile preceding, as 5A used to.
:
I'll check this too, thanks for pointing it out.
: It complains about '--' when it gets around to processing it as well.
:
It's not in 6.1, sorry; I meant to say, it will be in the next test
version. We'll be skipping past 6.1 and going straight to 7.0.
: What is getopt ? is it some sort of Unix thing ? (the only earlier
: thread I found seemed to suggest it might be)
:
It's a "command-line-option standard" modification. The foo -x -y -z
style command line is generally a UNIX thing, but not necessarily.
: I just want to invoke kermit to use an embedded script in batch mode,
: and pass in a couple of parameters.
: No filename, no switches, just parameters.
:
Watch this space for the 7.0 test announcement.
- Frank