[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Martin Vorlaender]

Joerg Schilling <js at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.network> wrote:
>> $ @gnv$gnu:[lib]gnv_setup.com
>
> Thank you, this command worked!
>
> Could you please explain what this does?

The "@" is sort of an input redirection (-> $ HELP @), and .com is
the common file type on VMS for DCL command procedures (shell scripts).
gnv$gnu: is a logical name pointing to a device (here, a pseudo-device
that points to a root directory), and [lib] is a directory specification.

You could TYPE that .com file to see what's inside. Besides other
things, you'll find a line like "$ bash :== $<some dir>bash.exe"
which defines the (so-called foreign) command "bash".

cu,
   Martin
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