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From: adelman@tgv.com (Kenneth Adelman)
Subject: Re: Update:WINQVT-RCP-Multinet-RS6000
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In article <12JUL199308472793@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>, rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes...
>In article <C9wJn2.79v@mh.nl>, STO@mh.nl (Frits A.M. Storms) writes...
>>
>>ObHack: my first line in SYLOGIN.COM is:
>>
>>$	SET	NOON	! 'F$VERIFY(0)
>>
>>which does the same although it is commented out !!!
>>
>
>The action of f$verify after ! is a documented "feature".  I guess DEC was too
>busy to "fix" it.

    It used to be that all lexicals were evaluated in comments.  When
DEC fixed this, they special-cased it for F$VERIFY() so as not to
break command procedures that used this trick.

							Ken