pritchard%cuavax.dnet@NETCON.CUA.EDU (Hugh Pritchard/Systems Programming) (07/14/88)
One of our consultants found this quirk in the display of DCL
continuation prompts; I was unable to explain it. Can anyone
help explain it?
Quirk:
Normally, the prompt for a continuation of a DCL command (command line
ending in a hyphen [-]) is the existing prompt preceded by an underscore
(_).
$ command stuff -
_$ more stuff
This works for real commands and symbols which translate to (most) real
commands, but not symbols which translate to "@...." For these symbols,
the continuation prompt is the same as the ordinary prompt!
$ some_symbol == "@some_com_file"
$ some_symbol stuff -
$ more stuff !Note absence of preceding underscore!
Everything seems (?) to work properly, but the absence of the underscore
is unnerving.
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