[Info-vax] Why doesn't PIPE work with freeware?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 1:03:39 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-10-12, alanfe... at gmail.com <alanfe... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > Why doesn't this simple PIPE command work? Why doesn't it recognize DIRSORT as a verb? It works fine directly at the DCL prompt. And VMS native commands work fine. 
> >
> Is the command defined as part of DCLTABLES or did you define it for the 
> current process only by using $ SET COMMAND ? 

Just SET COMMAND.

So that's the answer. Thank you, sir!

Can I put it in my own copy of DCLTABLES, if there even is one? I'm just a user on EISNER working on a few DCL command procedures.

Probably not worth it, as I don't use it that often. So I guess it's easier to use the DEFINE/USER SYS$OUTPUT <filespec>. 

> If it's the latter, that will not work with PIPE. 

Bummer (mild).

> 
> Simon. 
> 
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