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

[Steven Schweda]

> I'm trying to set up DIRSORT from the freeware site. [...]

   Thanks for the helpful link.  I fetched a kit from:

      https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/lww-dirsort/

Perhaps it's similar to whatever you found wherever.


> I suspect that the DIRSORT utility .CLD is similarly-written.

   Not really.  No "IMAGE" statement (unless you count the comment).  As
its .CLD file is used, none is needed.


> $ SET COMMAND DIRSORT

   You're working too hard.  There's no need for the user to deal with
"SET COMMAND"; the build procedure does that.  All the user needs to do
is define a DCL symbol which points to the executable.  (Or use
DCL$PATH?  (Gack.))

   The documentation is a bit sparse, but I tried the following:

ITS $ @ build.com

CC /standard=vaxc/optimize/nodebug DIRSORT.C
CC /standard=vaxc/optimize/nodebug SUPPORT.C
SET COMMAND/OBJECT=DIRSORT_CLD.OBJ DIRSORT.CLD 
link /exe=DIRSORT/sysexe /nodebug/nomap/notraceback dirsort/opt,        sys$load
able_images:dcldef.stb
purge /exclude=(*.c,*.h,*.cld)
 
     End Time: 23:20:23.70
   Begin Time: 23:20:20.31
 Elapsed time:     0:03.39
 
ITS $ 

ITS $ dirsort == "$ ''f$environment( "default")'DIRSORT.EXE"
ITS $ dirsort

Directory ITS$DKA0:[UTILITY.SOURCE.DIRSORT.V1R2S4.DIRSORT]

2022-Sep-25 23:07:30.44  aaareadme.txt;1
2022-Sep-25 23:07:30.48  bin.DIR;1
2022-Sep-25 23:07:30.54  build.com;1
[...]
2022-Sep-25 23:20:23.38  support.OBJ;1
2022-Sep-25 23:20:23.44  DIRSORT_CLD.OBJ;1
2022-Sep-25 23:20:23.67  DIRSORT.EXE;1

Total of 18 files

ITS $ 


   Note that the Info-ZIP Zip and UnZip "_CLI" programs work similarly.

   Many improvements are possible in that kit, from eliminating
"/standard=vaxc" to using separate product directories for different
hardware architectures (including IA64 and X86_64).


> I consider it good practice [...]

   I agree.  I have a UTILITY directory for such add-ons.