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

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Thanks, this was already answered. But I will keep your post on file with
the other answers for future reference. Thanks to everyone for the help.

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 14:20:57 -0800 (PST)
Steven Schweda via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

>    Sorry for the tardy response.  Dealing with CenturyLink is
> such a joy.
> 
> > I downloaded copies of zip, unzip etc. from various
> > freeware archives. How do I make these and other executables
> > available to all users?
> 
>    First, what, exactly, did you download, and from where? 
> Regarding the Info-ZIP programs, if you downloaded a complete
> source kit instead of a bare executable, then you'd get the
> documentation, which includes VMS-specific sections, which
> describe the usual DCL symbol creation.
> 
> > Where should these kinds of programs be placed in the
> > system
> 
>    Pretty much anywhere you'd like.  I prefer to keep my
> third-party stuff away from the official VMS stuff, but most
> programs don't really care.  Many of my systems don't have
> multiple disks, so I typically keep my [UTILITY] directory
> on the system disk, but I try not to spew stuff into
> SYS$SYSTEM unless it's absolutely necessary (which it seldom
> is).
> 
> ALP $ show logi utility
>    "UTILITY" = "UTILITY_DEV:[UTILITY]" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
> ALP $ show logi utility_dev
>    "UTILITY_DEV" = "SYS$SYSDEVICE:" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
> 1  "SYS$SYSDEVICE" = "ALP$DKC0:" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
> 
> 
> >  and how do I modify whatever logon proc(s) to allow
> > them to be used? 
> 
>    See those Info-ZIP installation instructions?  It may be
> that no one mentions the file protections, but everyone
> already knows all about those, right?
> 
> > $ ZIP :== $[location]ZIP
> 
>    Just remember that the "$" in "$[location]" is a separate
> character, not part of a device name, like the first one in a
> device name like "$3$DIA0".  As you might notice in the
> Info-ZIP documentation, I prefer to emphasize this by leaving
> a space after that "$".  For example:
>       ZIP :== $ dev:[dir]ZIP.EXE
> where "dev:" might be "$3$DIA0:".
> 
>    For what it's worth, my UTILITY dirctory also holds
> UTILITY:UTILITY.COM, which is where all the logical names and
> symbols for the stuff there get defined.  Users (of which I'm
> almost the only one) can choose whether or not to add
>       @ UTILITY:UTILITY.COM
> to their own SYS$LOGIN:LOGIN.COM scripts.
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