On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:06:21 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>At 07:46 -0400 on 09/24/2013, John Gilmore wrote about Re: DSNAME Syntax:
>
>>The 'period' problem is an old one. It has a syntactic function in
>>DSN[AME]= values, and it is out of place as the first character in a
>>standard one.
>
Ah, but I had asked about quote-framed DSNAMEs, where apparently
the standard rules are largely suspended. I can use lower case,
embedded blanks, long qualifiers, but not an initial period. Does this
reflect the DOS conventions?
Are there data set names not beginning with a period that likewise
are rejected by JCL when quote-framed? (Well, I found one, not very
surprisingly: a data set name of all blanks causes allocation of a
temporary data set instead. Still others?)
>It also is an "Invisible" dataset in HFS/etc. type directories.
>
("dataset"? "data set"?) in HFS type directories? The usual term is
filename. And irrelevant here.
-- gil
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