[Info-vax] Foreign commands ... newbie question

John Reagan johnrreagan at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 17 14:19:05 EDT 2011


"Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
news:8rOkQcFmJClX at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article 
> <3b23d42c-2182-4e58-acfb-fd3f3aeafac3 at r1g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Steven 
> Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (I don't even know
>> how to do a "which xxx" on VMS.  Is there a way?
>
>   $ dir dcl$path:xxx.com,.exe
>
>   Some UNIX "which" will only search PATH.  Some will also search
>   aliases.  If you want the latter, you'll need to use both the
>   directory command and a show symbol command.
>

Which UNIX's 'which' looks at aliases?  I've never seen one of those.

John 





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