In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (James Howard) wrote: >George Greer ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >: I STILL have no >: idea how to change directories, make them, or look anywhere but my home. > >The command for creating directories under VMS is nonsense. It took me >five or six tries before I got it right. It went something like >"create/dir [und.howardjp.temp]" or something. I *really* prefer the >Unix method of "mkdir temp". That is really simple and it is just as >easy to remove it. I still can't do that on the VMS. The only thing >that is getting me through this unfortunate experience with VMS is the >fact that the command structure is *similar* to DOS. Which is not really >a plus when you consider that DOS 2.0+ was based on Unix command and >directory structure and syntax. Okay, if I'm remembering right, here's how to make a directory called TEST in your current default directory (or your current working directory, for all you unix folks): $ CREATE /DIRECTORY [.TEST] And here's how to delete a subdirectory called TEST, blowing away everything inside before you do so (rm -rf for unix lovers): $ DELETE [.TEST]*.*;* $ SET PROTECTION=(O:RWED) TEST.DIR $ DELETE TEST.DIR;* Yes, it's contorted. However, I also have a friend who, on his Linux/Xwindows box, quickly switched to another xterm, and issued rm -rf *, before realizing that he had switched to the wrong xterm. Deleted a good portion of his hard disk before realizing what he had done. >By the way, I think the change directory command for VMS is the same as >for Unix... "cd temp". At least that seemed to work on MIAVX1. I'm pretty sure you can do that only because Kent wrote a nifty little script called CD. The actual command to move to a subdirectory called TEST is this: $ SET DEFAULT [.TEST] And to see what directory you're in: $ SHOW DEFAULT Clayton L. Hines [log in to unmask] UNIX Software Specialist Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA