Reads a value from SYS$COMMAND (usually the terminal in interactive
mode or the next line in the main command procedure) and assigns it to
a symbol. (The value must be enclosed in quotation marks to preserve
lowercase characters, multiple spaces, and tabs.)

Format
 INQUIRE symbol-name [prompt]

Additional information available:

ParametersQualifiers

symbol-name
 Name for the symbol. The name must be 1 through 255 alphanumeric
 characters.
prompt
 Prompt to be issued in interactive mode. Enclose the prompt in
 quotation marks if it contains lowercase characters, punctuation,
 multiple blanks or tabs, or the at sign (@). The default prompt is the
 specified symbol name.

Additional information available:

/GLOBAL/PUNCTUATION

 /LOCAL (default)
 Makes the symbol global or local to the current command level.

 /NOPUNCTUATION
 Inserts a colon and a space after the prompt.