Symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT

[Robert Atkinson]

Anyone know of a way to translate symbols in TYPE SYS$INPUT, e.g. :-

$ !
$ TEST = "A TEST"
$ !
$ TYPE SYS$INPUT

THIS IS ''TEST' OK?

$ !

I'm outputting HTML, but have embedded symbols in it that I have to keep switching back into DCL for.

Cheers, Rob.

[Marc Van den Broeck]

Rob,

write to a file in stead of using type sys$input.

e.g.
$write some_open_file "This is 'TEST' OK?"
will translate the symbol test

or use
$write sys$output "This is 'TEST' OK?"

to write directly to output.

Rgds
Marc

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Sorry, no can do.

Hein.

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

It is because TYPE is directly reading the data from the file that makes up the command procedure - those records are not pre-processed by DCL.

[Robert Atkinson]

Ok, thanks guys. I thought that would be the case.

Rob.