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DCL error handling and READ?

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The Question is:

 
How do you control the length of input from the keyboard when prompting for
input (preferably
using the READ command) in a DCL command batch?
 

The Answer is :

 
  You don't.  You use /ERROR or similar to capture the error when it
  occurs, and truncate the line as appropriate when no errors arise.

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 5-AUG-1999 )
     
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