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

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Sat Jan 9 10:45:51 EST 2016


On 1/8/16 12:30 PM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it except the name:
RUN/FOREIGN would have been a more consistent way of saying what it's doing.




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