[Info-vax] mkdir ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-01-24 17:14:46 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:

> On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 12:02:46 PM UTC-5, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <7140b3c8-651a-44a1-93f5-94442df2922f at googlegroups.com>, 
>> "pcoviello at gmail.com" <pcoviello at gmail.com> writes:
>>> 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?
>> 
>> That's about as clear as mud.  Maybe you code post some of the code?
>> 
>> Or, you could just hire a programmer.
> 
> I don't have the code it's loaded into cache.  I have asked the 
> application vendor for the specifics of that screen
> 
> here is a screen shot of what I see when I go to the menu
> 
> ...%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and 
> spelling \MKDIR\
> Path cannot be opened or created.
> Nothing will be generated.
> Key RETURN to continue.

As should be obvious, that's either a bug in Caché itself, or in 
whatever local customizations are running here; in this particular menu 
package.  Or somebody has deleted a file this code is dependent on.

All of what's been discussed can likely hack around this error, though 
it wouldn't surprise me that there might be further incompatibilities 
lurking within this same code path.

We're going around in circles here, and this really needs to go to 
whoever is supporting this menu code.

Or this might just be more fuel for a migration off of OpenVMS with the 
end of Caché support for OpenVMS, of course.


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