From: davef@tsoft-inc.com   
      
   On 2/21/2025 5:18 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:42:56 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:   
   >   
   >> Is it feasible for DCL?  Sure. Though it'll likely involve passing some   
   >> of the syntax to lib$table_parse or ilk for parsing, as do a few DCL   
   >> commands I've encountered (or have written) over the years.   
   >   
   > What happens when you bypass DCL? So one program directly spawns another   
   > and gives it a command to execute. Can the receiving program behave the   
   > same in that case as if it were invoked from a shell?   
   >   
      
   Well, that depends upon the requirements and design, right?   
      
   I've done quite a bit of such, but, I never depended on some set design, never   
   even considered it, I designed what I needed and implemented it.   
      
   Don't know why anyone would ever do anything else ??????   
      
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