From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 2/17/2025 4:49 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:02:37 -0700, Mark Berryman wrote:   
   >> On 2/16/25 5:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> Consider what happens: if you pass unquoted text to program X, DCL   
   >>> converts it to uppercase, and I think also normalizes multiple spaces   
   >>> to a single space. If you don’t want the text to be uppercased or   
   >>> space- normalized, you put it in pairs of double quotes. But then these   
   >>> double quotes also get passed as part of the command line. So the   
   >>> receiving program has to do some non-trivial parsing just to get simple   
   >>> literal text via the command line.   
   >>   
   >> So, so, so very wrong.  You are *way* behind the times.   
   >>   
   >> I *never* have to quote arguments when using programs that still use   
   >> *nix syntax on VMS.  My arguments' case is never changed.   
   >   
   > Prove it. It seems to me what you are claiming would break backward   
   > compatibility with the way VMS used to work.   
   >   
   >> Here is the entry point to any C program on VMS:   
   >>   
   >>    int main (int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[]);   
   >>   
   >> See?  Argument passing works the same on VMS as it does on *nix, as   
   >> described above.   
   >>   
   >> Let's see, what's a good example?  Ah, here's one:   
   >>   
   >> $ gs -q -P- -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sstdout=%stderr   
   >> -sOutputFile=.pdf .ps   
   >>   
   >> Again, see?  No quoting.  No case conversion.  Ghostscript sees the   
   >> command exactly as I typed it and I typed it exactly as I would on a   
   >> *nix system.   
   >   
   > Can you show us a simple C program that just prints out its command   
   > arguments, and how it responds to some sample command lines?   
      
   Why would we do that?   
      
   Last time you came with those claims I posted (23-May-2024)   
   a rather extensive demo with CLI, foreign command, hybrid, C   
   and DCL with both /parse=ext and /parse=trad.   
      
   Apparently you did not read it. Which is fine, but don't expect   
   anybody to redo the work when you did not read it the first time.   
      
   Arne   
      
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