[Info-vax] mkdir ?

[Forster, Michael]

Intersystems Cache?


Michael Forster
Enterprise Storage and IDX Architect | Information Services
Medical College of Wisconsin
O: (414) 955-4967 |  mforster at mcw.edu


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On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 4:22:49 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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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I would love to post the code but unfortunately it sits inside of Cache, and the vendor wants to charge us to make the change, and it usually isn't inexpensive.

ok I'll see if a temporary setting works...

thanks
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