[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[Richard Levitte]

Den torsdag 9 juni 2016 kl. 06:53:49 UTC+2 skrev lawren... 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 ...

VMS doesn't have the same tradition of piping together a gazillion small utilities that only do one thing.  On VMS, the tradition is to have utility libraries, and to build your applications around them.

Cheers,
Richard ( this is slowly changing )