[Info-vax] How do I make zip, unzip etc. available to all users?

[David Froble]

Hans Vlems wrote:
> Yes, that is the proper way to do things. It is very tempting to put UNZIP in SYS$SYSTEM. 
> If only because mc unzip "-V" * works almost as easily as under linux/unix.
> All my systems have a small (2 GB) disk called APPLnn, where nn is the systems alloclass. The disk is mounted with an alias, so both DISK$APPLnn and DISK$APPL are created. Next, logical names are created like: APPL_TOOLS -> DISK$APPL:[APPL.TOOLS], same for _GAMES and _SYSMGR.
> The [APPL. part is somewhat redundant but makes it easy to lift the entire collection to another system.
> Running unzip of course becomes a longer command to type. However, if I didn't like typing long commands I'd have taken up Windows sysadmin as a hobby :)
> Hans

Why more to type?

If you set up a symbol and/or a command file to invoke a utility, it can be 
rather short, even just

$ UNZIP <container file>

Where UNZIP is defined something like (I'm not checking this)

$ UNZIP :== @[UTIL]UNZIP