> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 11:21 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:59:44 -0500, Hardee, Charles H wrote: > > > >Your command delimiter is currently set to semi-colon (";"). > >So, ISPF thinks that the exclude command is really 2 > commands and the first, the exclude, only has 1 quotation mark. > > > Whose moronic design fails to treat a command delimiter surrounded by > quotes as plain text? That's what quotes are supposed to be for. Hex > is a cumbersome circumvention of a bad design; not a solution. I've > been perplexed by this for 3 decades. TRT-addiction? Misapplication > of Conway's Law?
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. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
