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

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org
Fri Jan 8 13:30:19 EST 2016


In article <n6mkrh$2an$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2016-01-07 21:10:34 +0000, Hans Vlems said:
> 
>> For some reason I prefer mc unzip over the definition of a foreign command.
>> One reason may be that mc(r) always works.
> 
> Which utterly confuses the folks that aren't steeped in history or arcane, too.
> I tried to kill off that command, but it just won't ever die.
> It's really too bad VMS never forced users to have a DCL$PATH.
> But then... compatibility.

   Last time I looked, MCR was used in one of the DCL scripts that ships
   with VMS.

   I like it.



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