From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:22:59 -0700, Mark Berryman wrote:   
      
   > So, IMHO, DCL is superior in this regard.   
      
   Unfortunately, no. The fundamental problem with DEC OSes (and this   
   includes Windows) is that the command line is passed to the program as a   
   single string buffer. On *nix systems, it is passed as an array of   
   strings.   
      
   You should be familiar with the well-known problem of one program invoking   
   another with a command that might include characters with special meanings   
   to a shell. On a *nix system, there is a simple way to avoid those special   
   meanings: the first program invokes the second program directly, without   
   going through a shell.   
      
   Nowadays, there is even a simple library call to do this   
   .   
      
   This is not so easy to do with a DEC-style command line.   
      
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