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Conference noted::hackers_v1

Title:	-={ H A C K E R S }=-
Notice:	Write locked - see NOTED::HACKERS
Moderator:	DIEHRD::MORRIS

Created:	Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Aug 03 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	680
Total number of notes:	5456

271.0. "$ &foo" by IOSG::HORSFIELD (jakc - the well-known typo) Tue Jul 15 1986 05:45

	i suppose i'm the only person in the world who doesn't know 
	the answer, but ....

	why does a DCL command prefaced by & do what it does? for 
	example,
	
		$ &foo
		

	i'm using VMS 4.4
	

	jack

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
271.1	pointer	KOALA::ROBINS	Scott A. Robins, ZKO2-2/R94	`Tue Jul 15 1986 11:08`	4
	For more detail than you probably care about, see note 29 (particularly 29.2) in the COMMAND_PROCEDURES conference. Scott
271.2	&no help	IOSG::HORSFIELD	jakc - the well-known typo	`Thu Jul 17 1986 06:16`	11
	well, i've glanced at the discussion... have you tried entering a command such as: $ &print fred.txt the discussion does not seem to cover what happens. jack
271.3		IOSG::WARWICK	Trevor Warwick	`Fri Jul 18 1986 05:49`	4
	It's a bug in V4.4 DCL - fixed in 4.5. Trev