On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote: > I think IBM would do well to adopt yet another UNIX concept: The "escape". > The ; would be a logical line end. Like NL in UNIX. But you can put a reverse > solidus (backslash \) in front of it to escape it.
> ex '\;' would make ; a literal. That does require ex '\\' to exclude the \ > itself. But you could then ex '\'' to exclude a ' as well. Ahem, that was a VM concept long before UNIX even existed. Double quote is the default escape character in VM, has been since 1967. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
