[Info-vax] How do I make zip, unzip etc. available to all users?
David Froble
davef at tsoft-inc.com
Thu Jan 7 17:01:20 EST 2016
Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2016-01-07 21:10:34 +0000, Hans Vlems said:
>
>> For some reason I prefer mc unzip over the definition of a foreign
>> command.
>> One reason may be that mc(r) always works.
>
> Which utterly confuses the folks that aren't steeped in history or
> arcane, too.
> I tried to kill off that command, but it just won't ever die.
> It's really too bad VMS never forced users to have a DCL$PATH.
> But then... compatibility.
>
>
DCL$PATH can also be rather bad.
If a system is to have a command, it should be set up "properly" and documented
in the site user's guide. Assuming that sites have a user's guide ????
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