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From: dca@edison.UUCP (David Albrecht)
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Subject: VMS tools
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Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 17:36:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: edison.847
Posted: Wed Aug 20 17:36:50 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Aug-86 06:41:04 EDT
Organization: General Electric Company, Charlottesville, VA
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Before I go and dump anything on the net I want to know if anyone
is interested in a set of VMS tools which provide some basic
Unix-like interfaces.  Written in VAX C they make it easier on
poor Unix people (like me) to live on VMS machines.  To wit:

CD - checks the target directory for existence and will take
     Unix or VMS paths.
PUSHD
POPD
CDPATH - takes a list of VMS directories in a specific symbol
    and defines logicals for each of the subdirectories in the
    list of directories.
X - A procedure which takes a unix-esq command line with VMS
    commands and executes it.  Implements to some degree
    '', '|' (using mailboxes), '&' (using spawn), and ';'.
JOBS - companion program to X, gives current status for background
    jobs issued by X.
KILL - kills processes or %jobno issued by X.

These tools do not replace the DCL shell but rather augment it so
they can be called only when needed.

David Albrecht    toylnd!dca or edison!dca