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From: SERAFINI%TOM@IO.ARC.NASA.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VMS weirdness
Message-ID: <8711081040.AA04841@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 16:19:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 16:19:35 1987
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I came across something today by accident that I find very interesting, so I
thought I'd tell everyone.  At DCL level, entering a line with only a "&"
on it will instantly crash your process, with some kind of signal error.
Typing the & embedded in a command line seems to cause the rest of the command
after the & to be ignored, like a comment.  Does anybody know the explanation
for this.

If the answer if RTFM, just say so, because I haven't. Even if it's documented,
it hardly seems like appropriate behavior.

Environment: VAX 11/780, VMS 4.4, LAT service.

<dbs>

David Serafini
Sterling Software, FedSysGrp
@NASA/Ames Research Center,
Applied Aerodynamics Branch

ARPA:  serafini%tom@ames-io.ARPA
 or    serafini@ames-aero.ARPA