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

[John E. Malmberg]

On 10/23/2016 5:51 AM, hb wrote:
> 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.

Probably TT: would work in place of fta88 to make that more generic.

>> 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.

In a notefile somewhere it is mentioned that usr_ods5: is available for 
such use.  Disk quotas are not currently enabled on that volume.

The sys$scratch: user volume also does not have quotas on it.

Regards,
-John