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VMS Help INQUIRE, Parameters *Conan The Librarian |
symbol-name
Specifies a symbol consisting of 1 to 255 alphanumeric
characters.
prompt-string
Specifies the prompt to be displayed at the terminal when the
INQUIRE command is executed. String values are automatically
converted to uppercase. Also, any leading and trailing spaces and
tabs are removed, and multiple spaces and tabs between characters
are compressed to a single space.
Enclose the prompt in quotation marks (" ") if it contains
lowercase characters, punctuation, multiple blanks or tabs, or
an at sign (@). To denote an actual quotation mark in a prompt-
string, enclose the entire string in quotation marks and use
quotation marks (" ") within the string.
When the system displays the prompt string at the terminal,
it generally places a colon (:) and a space at the end of the
string. (See the /PUNCTUATION qualifier.)
If you do not specify a prompt string, the command interpreter
uses the symbol name to prompt for a value.
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