Quotes on DCL command line

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From: Tom Cunningham
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1986 22:09

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Any of you VMS folks know a clever way to cleanly quote a single quote
on the DCL command line?  I have an application written in VAX C that
does its own command line parsing via argc/argv.  One type of argument
needs to be triple quoted thusly: '''argval'''.  In other words, all
six single quotes, along with argval, need to get passed in to the
application.  I realize the single quote is some kind of whizbang
metacharacter in DCL, but I have really had to jump through hoops to
make this work.  Any suggestions?

Also, does anyone know of a tar, PD or otherwise, that works with VMS?
Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query about software
distribution!

Tom Cunningham     "Good, fast, cheap -- select two."
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Subject: Quotes on DCL command line
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Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 18:09:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  5 18:09:01 1986
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