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

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 2:48:08 PM UTC-4, Steven Schweda wrote:
> > Why doesn't this simple PIPE command work? [...] 
> 
> Did you define DIRSORT as a foreign-command symbol, or what, exactly? 
> Sometimes the results you get depend on your own (invisible/unreported) 
> actions. 

I posted the output of VERB DIRSORT. Isn't that enough?

> DIRSORT has a command-line parsing scheme which has some oddities. 
> For example: 
> 
> ITS $ mcr sys$disk:[]DIRSORT.EXE /version 
> 
> MCR by Lyle W West 
> Version: V1.2-4 (Vax) 
> Image Build: Sep 25 2022 (DecC) 
> Required Privs: SYSPRV (or READALL) 
> 
> The program is not named "MCR", it's not running on a VAX, and the 
> compiler used is not called "DecC". 
> 
> I started to look into this mess, but haven't spent as much time on 
> it as it needs.

Anyway, it does the job.
OK.
AEF