[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

In article <006b1165$0$10103$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>AEF wrote:
>
>> bash-3.00$ apropos copy
>> /usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory
>
>
>On OS-X, apropos copy yields a ton of information about all sorts of
>subroutines that copy stuff. In there, the "cp" command is listed. I
>assume cat is also in there somewhere. The output is basically useless
>but does include the cp command.
>
>
>Note that on VMS:
>
>$help cp yields "Sorry no information on CP". And there isn't an
>"apropos" on VMS,
>
>Now instead of "cp", lets use "mkdir" or "rmdir". Those are ubuquitous
>command used in both DOS and Unix. Yet, there is no easy way on VMS to
>find out that you need to use CREATE/DIRECTORY to make one, and then:


$ HELP 
   Hints
   Files_and_directories

(identifies both COPY and CREATE/DIRECTORY, as well as DELETE.  It does say
under $ DELETE file that if the file you're deleting is a directory it has to
be empty, which is at least a pretty good clue.)

>
>
>SET file directoryname.dir /prot=(w:rwed)
>SET FILE [.directory...]*.dir /prot=(w:rwed)
>DEL [.directory...]*.*;* multiple times until the files are all gone
>DEL directoryname.dir;
>
>In fact, I am not sure there is even a HELP entry on how to delete
>directories on VMS.

It's under DELETE.

-- Alan