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From: chris@usc-oberon.USC.EDU (Christopher Ho)
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Subject: Re: making VMS better... filelist specification generalization
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Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 18:00:22 EST
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Note that VMS already has limited indirect file capability.  I can
create a file called T.COM with the following:
	/debug t,sys$library:cshare/option
and say:
	$ link@t
and the rest of the command line gets sucked in from that file.  Note
that there must be no space, otherwise VMS thinks the '@' is part of
the filespec.