[Info-vax] How to tell SET COMMAND where the .EXE file is?

[Steven Schweda]

   If you're still looking for a good time with DIRSORT, then you might
look here: http://antinode.info/dec/sw/dirsort.html

   Among other things:

its $ dirsort ITS$DKA0:[SMS.IZ.vlfn] 

Directory ITS$DKA0:[SMS.IZ.vlfn]  (ITS$DKA0:[SMS.IZ.vlfn])

2016-Nov-23 22:20:53.95  very_long_file_name_very_long_file_name_very_long_file_
name_very_long_file_name_very_long_file_name_very_long_file_name_very_long_file_
name_very_long_file_name_very_long_file_name_very_long_file_name_very_long_file_
name.txt;1

Total of 1 file.


   The new installation instructions might be better, too.


> One more thing: SET COMMAND DIRSORT is only three words to type.
> That's trying too hard?! (~_^)

   A nuclear-fusion bomb is just a bomb.  Why all the excitement?

   Defining a foreign-command DCL symbol is easier, and generally
more reliable in less-skilled hands (including mine).

> [...] Doesn't seem to like a list of params, though. [...]

   That's still true.

> Anyway, the thing works! It even accepts ;*, [...]

   Define "works".  Try something like, say, plain-old: ;  Or: ;2
(Plenty of other things didn't work as expected, either, even on ODS2.)


> [...] No need to be so rude though!

   My concept of "rude" includes posting a hopelessly incomplete problem
description, and then expecting free advice.  But I may be eccentric.