Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!watnot.waterloo.edu!bdklassen From: bdklassen@watnot.waterloo.edu (Brent Klassen) Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: Submission to mod.computers.vax Message-ID: <8612020734.AA29795@watnot.uucp> Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 02:34:46 EST Article-I.D.: watnot.8612020734.AA29795 Posted: Tue Dec 2 02:34:46 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 20:23:11 EST References: <8611301720.AA03479@wucs2.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Brent KlassenOrganization: Conrad Grebel College, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 10 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa In article <8611301720.AA03479@wucs2.UUCP> sjs@wucs2.UUCP writes: >Is there a way in VMS 4.4 to retrieve the command line exactly as the >user typed it, without having DCL chomp on it. >Among the many features of LIB$GET_FOREIGN(), >DCL converts case, ignores text after !, and invokes its own quoting mechanism. >I simply wish to obtain exactly what the user typed. >I am willing to work in almost any language to get this done. How about using the DCL command: $ read sys$command /prompt="" line where line is the symbol that will contain the input line.