Article 128060 of comp.os.vms:
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From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How to create/copy file with name like ".blabla"
Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:54:16 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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In article <41samc$nf4@bilbo.nask.org.pl>, TOBIASZ@alpha.sggw.waw.pl (Jacek W. Tobiasz) writes:
=Hi all, 
=
=I want to create/copy file with name   .blabla   (nothing before dot) 
=from DCL. I've tried 
=$ create .blabla
=CTRL-Z
=
=it works ok, but 
=$ copy something.txt .blabla
=creates file something.blabla. Append do the same. 
=How to create file file filename like  ".blabla" form DCL level ?

If the file in question has variable-length records with implied carriage
control, then
	$ COPY NL:,SYS$DISK:something.txt SYS$DISK:.blabla
will do the trick.
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