[Info-vax] Installing and using GNV - some feedback and questions

[hb]

On 10/23/2016 02:49 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> I saw the warning about not being able to run DCL commands from within
> bash and not being able to run DEC editors from within bash. Is there
> any way around this ?

$ sh log SYS$INPUT
"SYS$INPUT" = "_EISNER$FTA88:" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
$ mc gnv$gnu:[bin]bash
bash-4.3$ dcl 'pipe def/user sys$input fta88: ; 
edit/tpu/display=character_cell login.com'

seems to be a way around this limitation.

> Where do we currently stand with emacs for Alpha/VMS (and installing
> it into the GNV directory tree and running it under GNV bash ?)

There were a couple of replies in this news group about emacs on VMS. 
21.2, the version on the freeware CD, should work on Alpha/V8.4. 
Although I never tried it with GNV (and because I have limited disk 
space on Eisner I don't have it available for testing right now) I would 
expect it to work, maybe with a similar workaround as above.