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

[hb]

On 10/23/2016 03:32 PM, John E. Malmberg 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.

Unfortunately it isn't:
bash-4.3$ dcl 'show log/proc tt'
    "TT" = "_MBA27888:" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
bash-4.3$

To make this more generic, use your own logical, myinput or mytt, to 
point to what sys$input translates before invoking bash and use your 
logical in the pipe command.

> 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.

 From what I see it is MYSCRATCH which points to a directory on 
USR_SCRATCH, which doesn't have disk quotas enabled. Maybe I should 
ignore the mail messages saying I should clean up that directory. :-)