On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> We did try to wean folks off EXAM to use HDSTRACE. See towards the
> end of the following Starlink Bulletin article.
>
> http://www.starlink.ac.uk/Bulletin/96sep/a16.html
>
> However, you had to place the name in quotes. There are more examples
> in SUN/86 Section "Data Files: Internal Details, subsection "HDS files"
> but from ICL.
>
> http://www.starlink.ac.uk/star/docs/sun86.htx/node36.html
>
> This syntax still works.
Well there you go, never used that syntax in 17 years, but now I see it,
it makes sense (for about 30 seconds, then clearly it's time to forget it
as it's not much use anywhere else in these days of mainly input groups
instead of HDS objects).
> If you want to do away with the need to quote, for a DST, that's a
> different matter.
Since the previous behaviour hasn't been broken, this whole area is
probably best left alone.
Peter.
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