Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!mitre.ARPA!art From: art@mitre.ARPA (Art McClinton) Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: Parsing command line exactly as typed Message-ID: <8612022051.AA16594@mitre.ARPA> Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 09:54:06 EST Article-I.D.: mitre.8612022051.AA16594 Posted: Wed Dec 3 09:54:06 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Dec-86 21:47:04 EST References: <8612020253.AA21288@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The MITRE Corp., Washington, D.C. Lines: 15 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa The :== string assignment is not listed in the VMS DCL Distionary as obsolete. It performs a different set of operations than the character oriented == string assignment. I do not know where you received the idea that :== is obsolete but I do not think that DEC agrees with you. * *---Art * *Arthur T. McClinton Jr. ARPA: ART@MITRE.ARPA *Mitre Corporation MS-Z305 Phone: 703-883-6356 *1820 Dolley Madison Blvd Internal Mitre: ART@MWVMS or M10319@MWVM *McLean, Va. 22102 DECUS DCS: MCCLINTON *