Using Reserved Characters

The hyphen (-) and @ sign characters have special meanings in a command line. The hyphen precedes an SQR flag, and the @ sign precedes an argument file name. To use either of these characters as the first character of a command-line argument, enter the character twice to indicate that it is a literal hyphen or @ sign, as shown in the following code example:

sqr myreport ? --17 @argfile.dat @@X2H44

In this example, the double hyphen and double @ sign are interpreted as single literal characters.