Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Local Versus Global Command Options Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:43:10 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <67b54873$0$709$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <67b647c3$0$712$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:43:10 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7599b039b8b259a180028516b3ffda25"; logging-data="2638061"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19iubn/VxbzjXKQRBErllE6" User-Agent: Pan/0.161 (Chasiv Yar; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ghvML//pw4BJ/Sbzl1XCGWdaIOA= Bytes: 1531 On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:06:10 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > And I came up with: > >> $ quote = """""" >> $ mcr sys$disk:[]test "Hello World" "''quote'"Hello World"''quote'" >> Hello World > "Hello > World" Did you notice that DCL (and therefore the receiving program) cannot tell the difference between substituting the “quote” variable versus entering a literal quote?