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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-10-23, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks Hans and John.

That will be very useful indeed and makes using GNV much more viable.

>>> 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.
>

I've briefly looked at the emacs kit and the build documentation
doesn't appear to match the files available in the kit. However,
your TPU example above has removed the immediate need to use emacs on
VMS so I won't be spending any more time with emacs on VMS for now.

Thanks,

Simon.

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