VMS Help DCE_RPC, rpccp, Environmental Influences on Command Syntax  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

   Environmental Influences on Command Syntax

   There are variations in the action of the control program, depending
   on whether commands are entered from the system prompt or from within
   the control program.  For example, entering the annotation field of
   profile elements from the system prompt allows you to include internal
   spaces in an annotation.

       Function                At System Prompt   Inside Control Program
       _______________________________________________________________
       Strings within quotation     Supported          Not required
       marks

       Wildcard substitution        Supported          Unsupported
       _______________________________________________________________

   Some UNIX systems require that you place an escape symbol (\) before
   string binding delimiters such as brackets ([ ]) or that you place
   the delimiters within quotation marks (' ' or " ") at the system
   prompt.