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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to jayjwa   
   Re: Local Versus Global Command Options   
   18 Feb 25 02:12:00   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:46:49 -0500, jayjwa wrote:   
      
   > $ mcr DUA1:[JAYJWA.PROGRAMMING.C]cmdlin Hello World   
   > Did I hear you say hello?   
      
   What you forgot to do is SET PROCESS/PARSE_STYLE=EXTENDED. I think this   
   was added in VMS v7.2. It does case preservation and disables   
   interpretation of some special characters, but there is no mention that I   
   can see of what it does to quotation marks.   
      
   OK, the proper test would be a simple program, maybe not in C, that does a   
   LIB$GET_FOREIGN and shows the results of that. Then we can compare giving   
   it different command lines and seeing what happens to them.   
      
   Basically, the whole thing smells like a gigantic hack to try to bring   
   things a little closer to POSIX behaviour. I doubt it’s very successful.   
      
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