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Article #652Re: making VMS better... filelist specification generalization
From: Brad Banko
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1986 04:48
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1986 04:48
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Since posting the original question/suggestion, I have learned that @filespec is acceptable to some commands, but the file format is not compatible with the output of : dir/nohead/notail/output=file ... or search/window=0/output=file ... which each produce a list of filespecs, each on a separate line (i.e., filspec1 filespec2... which, as far as I know, is not compatible with the @filespec that some commands already accept... what these commands expect is a @file that has exactly what you would type yourself, e.g., search @file, where file= searchfilespec1,searchfilespec2,... pattern list or: searchfilespec1, searchfilespec2,... - pattern list... The file indirection doesn't supplement the command parameter list, it replaces it. (sigh! DEC!) -- Brad Banko ...!decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!btb Cleveland, Ohio
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!btb From: btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) Newsgroups: comp.org.decus Subject: Re: making VMS better... filelist specification generalization Message-ID: <1823@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 23:48:56 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.1823 Posted: Sun Dec 14 23:48:56 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Dec-86 05:24:17 EST References: <1784@ncoast.UUCP> <873@aicchi.UUCP> Reply-To: btb@ncoast.UUCP (Brad Banko) Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 35