On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:35:14 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>That's a definite maybe. You can certainly have a null in a quoted DSN, but 
>you can't catalog it, which makes it pretty useless. 
>
I bet STOW allows them.  Probably BLDL, LINK, ...

When I first discovered apostrophes I created various uncatalogable DSNs.
Shortly, storage admins descended on me, accusing me of breaking their
Scratch utility.  Bad Scratch utility design.

>   ... I can see nulls in path names creating all sorts of havoc in a Eunix 
> environment, but it's not my dog.
>
In PATH='...' they result in errors in allocation, perhaps earlier.

ITYM "I don't have a dog in this fight."

-- 
gil

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