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

[Jojimbo]

On Oct 18, 6:47 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <2ac640bb-b043-4eb6-b15a-9b001ed8b... at h39g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, Jojimbo <jjgessl... at gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>
> > What did I just run?  Seems some clever person put c.com in the front
> > of dcl$path.  What it
> > does I have no knowledge or desire to figure it out.  I think dcl$path
> > is way too dangerous
> > to be set in an environment like our with too many user with SYSPRV.
>
>    Do a dir dcl$path:*.com,.exe and see what file it found first.  When
>    DCL$PATH is defined, entering a wildcard causes DCL to search for and
>    run the first match.
>
>    Which is why my DCL$PATH starts with a directory that holds $.com,
>    and $.com contains an appropriate error message about trying to
>    do everything all at once.  Then it exists with status %X00038008.
>
>    Of course, $.com doesn't match %%, but I'm not likely to type those
>    two characters and return all in one typo.

Nice choice of status value.

%DCL-W-ABVERB, ambiguous command verb - supply more characters

Jim