[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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