[Info-vax] mkdir ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-01-23 20:54:19 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:

> we have an application that is issuing a MKDIR command in one of their 
> menus, is there anything I can do to have it translate to a VMS command?
> it's a menu selection to output a file.  setting a symbol or logical 
> before invoking the application.  any ideas?

Change or patch the menu to perform correctly in this case, or contact 
the folks that are supporting the menu and let them know that it's 
broken, or that the provided installation or setup documentation is 
problematic.

If the menu is written using DCL—there are other ways to do write menus 
and to execute commands on OpenVMS—then it'd be common to edit the 
procedure to make the necessary changes.

If that's not possible, then add the command to DCL either via a DCL 
symbol for foreign command, or by adding a matching a CLI verb to the 
command tables, or an automatic foreign command using the DCL$PATH 
logical name.

Using DCL symbols may or may not work here, depending on how the 
unspecified menu not yet in evidence was coded.  And what else making 
these changes might mess up is also unclear.

mkdir is a common Unix command.

For a better answer, you'll want to post some code.




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