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- From: hornlo@OKRA.MILLSAPS.EDU (Larry Horn)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: problem with DCL program
- Message-ID: <00965603.BE391120.5632@okra.millsaps.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 21:27:38 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- #>>The recommended way out of this is to:
- #>> $ DIRECTORY :== DIRECTORY
- [...]
- #> after the command procedure has completed. A better way is to define local
- #> $ DIRECTORY := DIRECTORY
- [...]
- # A better way might be to force VMS to interrupt the command correctly
- # by repeating the last letter of the command a few times each time it is
- # used.
- #
- # EG. $ typeee text.txt
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- Personal opinion only, but I really "hate" that last solution (maybe because
- I first saw it in WordPerfect's command files <grin>). What happens when (if?)
- DCL actually starts looking beyond 4 characters (e.g., "TYPEe" would be an
- error)?
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- Isn't the SET SYMBOL/SCOPE=(...) the "recommended" solution?
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- - ---------------------------------- signed: 20-DEC-1992 15:25 C*T (USA) --- -
- Larry Horn / Millsaps College / Jackson, MS / hornlo@okra.millsaps.edu
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