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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <8a620656-9c38-419a-a559-27943053c780 at v11g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>, Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:

>DCL$PATH is very useful for utilities that expect command line
>parameters but don't reside in SYS$SYSTEM.
> If they are then MCR is my friend (and perhaps yours too).

      MCR is your friend, even if you don't put programs in SYS$SYSTEM.
   MCR takes "[]" as current default device and directory, so for a quick 
   test of program a.exe using x y z arguments to main, I often use 
   "mc []a x y z".