You're right, Tom. When I entered "ABC/DEFGHIJKL", the entire string was
displayed. Now, is there some way to get around this little "limitation?"

Emerson, Tom # El Monte wrote:

> The problem is that the suppression of the data FOLLOWING the slash is done
> at the system level -- it might possibly be a FILE LOCKWORD -- and since
> $STDLIST's, by design, are meant to be printed, the system supresses the
> display of potential lockwords to keep them away from "prying eyes"...
>
> Cases where data following a slash MAY be displayed are either (a) the data
> begins with a non-alphabetic character, or (b) is longer than 8 characters
>
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