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

Tom Emerson
Sr. Systems Analyst
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Willis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 8:52 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Have a STREAMX question...
>
>
> We use Vesoft's Streamx exclusively here, and I was wondering
> if anyone
> here would know how to get around a little problem I am
> having with it.
> The job prompts the user for a string:
>
> ::PROMPT STRING INFO = &
>   "Enter a string: "
>
> The string may contain a slash ("/"). I want to display within the
> stdlist what string the user entered:
>
> !comment info.....{INFO}
>
> But if the user has entered a string which contains a slash,
> the part of
> the string which follows the slash does not display in the
> comment line.
> Is there some trick to getting the whole string to display, regardless
> of what the user entered?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
> Jay
>