LISTF @[log in to unmask]@,2;$STDLIST
      ^
File name is more than eight characters long. (CIERR 532)

I ran across this today.  I also remember running into this a
long time ago on MPE.  Would this not be considered an
implementation flaw?  After all, does not @ match nothing as
well?  Should not the above yield the same result as the
combined output of:

LISTF @QPLIMIT.@,2;$STDLIST
LISTF [log in to unmask]@,2;$STDLIST

Its not a big thing I admit, it just strikes me as odd.  I seem to
recall that something similar used to happen if you tried to
back reference an eight character file name in a FILE equate.
I tested this just to see and it works fine.

:file abcdefgh=qptxrunj
:file ijklmnop=*abcdefgh

Is this an old problem that isn't worth fixing or is this behaviour
intended?  If so, for what reason? Just wondering.

Regards,
Jim


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