[Info-vax] Saving data

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

(snip)
> A little nitpicking:
> It's not "installed". It mere lives in a directory. System space and 
> user space normally are not used to refer to directories, but to memory 
> spaces in ram, as referred to by the CPU through the MMU.

I would still call it installed, but not "INSTALLed".
 
(snip, I wrote)
>> I do remember years ago installing programs in my directory
>> that needed to be added to the command table, and figuring out
>> how to do that for just myself.  I forget now the name of the
>> program that does that, but it compiles from a special file that
>> gives the command options.
 
> Yes, adding "normal" commands to DCL is a bit more complex, because you 
> need to give syntax for the command, switches, parameters and so on in a 
> special file. You then add the command to DCL with the SET COMMAND 
> command 

Yes, that seems to be it.  It is called CDU (Command Definition 
Utility) and the files are .CLD files.

Specifically, this used to be for TeX on VAX/VMS.  It doesn't
just pass the command line, but processes it some.  It pretty
much has to run from a .CLD definition.  Maybe with no options
it could run without it, but, as I remember, not.

There were some programs that our system didn't have installed,
and didn't want to install.  

-- glen