[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 12:02:21 PM UTC+12, Steven Schweda wrote:
> You can use DCL$PATH to specify where executables will
> be sought, but I prefer the (old/original) "foreign command"
> scheme of defining a DCL symbol to specify what to run for a
> particular command/verb.

ldo at theon:~> find $(IFS=':'; for f in $PATH; do echo $f; done) -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm /o+x -print | wc -l
4285

When you have a few thousand executables in your path, having to define a separate command for each one gets ... unwieldy ...