In article <[log in to unmask]>, Michael Clarkson
 <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> David Munday <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> When I type: lynx http://www.altavista.digital.com
> ...
>> When I put: altavista :== lynx http://www.altavista.digital.com
> ...
>> I get: %DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling
>> \LYNX\
>
> That's probably because lynx itself is not a command verb that OpenVMS
> recognizes, but a symbol.  To make sure it gets parsed as such, you
> need to enclose it in tick marks:
>
> altavista :== 'lynx' http://www.altavista.digital.com
>
> However, you may still run into problems with it not treating that URL
> correctly...
>
Well you sure got that url business right.  It wants to prepend
file://localhost/
to the url.
 
Any ideas?  I've tried an assortment of quots, double quotes, quotes around the
whole mess.
 
You ought to be able to tell the parser to leave the thing alone!
 
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