I keep wondering what is wrong with your setup.  You see, when you use
the sh from the UDC, the prompt that you get in the shell is Shell/ix>.
It is not the $ sign.  Barry posted a link to an excellent paper, I urge
you to obtain it, read it and follow the directions.

Finally, once in the shell, turn off caps lock.  :-)

Denys


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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Setting posix path? (more questions)

Thanks to everyone! Everyone has replied with very helpfull
information..

Denys: I do have a udc in manager.sys which is set as...
HPPXUDC.PUB.SYS
   PLISTF            SYSTEM
   FINDDIR           SYSTEM
   FINDFILE          SYSTEM
   LISTDIR           SYSTEM
   DISCUSE           SYSTEM
   SH                SYSTEM
   HPMPETOHFS        SYSTEM
   HPLISTFCLEANUP    SYSTEM
   HPPARSEFEQ        SYSTEM

I checked the sh and it does call sh.hpbin.sys -L, weather or not I'm
missing part of the UDC I can't be sure.. If that list looks short
please let me know so I can get everything set right...



Donna:

>yes, you want 'hpbin.sys' as part of your path.  there's no pressing
>need (that i'm aware of) to state it as '/SYS/HPBIN'.  it sounds too
>like perhaps someone has added '.' to your path.  that's a bad thing
>and should be removed.  regard /bin, that directory should be populated
>with links pointing back to the files in .hpbin.sys.

 You are right on with the '.' in the path, It was a !HPGROUP that
allowd me to invoke commands. I did this test before I played with the
path...
current path was HPPATH = !HPGROUP,PUB,PUB.SYS,ARPA.SYS
my test:
logon as manager.sys
:ls     (nothing)
:LS     (nothing)

:sh
 $ls     (nothing)
 $LS    (nothing)
 $exit

:chgroup hpbin
:ls     (list)
:LS     (list)
:sh
 $ls (nothing)
 $LS (list)
 $cd /
 $LS (nothing)


 So that little experiment confermed what I figured and you said, I
just had to test it one more time :)

 I see now that the shell is attached to the CI so that's why the
!HPPATH variable carrys over to my shell session, until I change the
shell directory via 'cd /', which I assume changes my !HPPATH, which
is why I could no longer access the 'LS'


 So then I played with my path and ran in to a little bit of a snag. I
wanted to append hpbin.sys to my path so I tried:

setvar HPPATH !HPPATH,hpbin.sys

and got an error, I notice that since !HPGROUP is the frist part of
the path, it tries to resolve that variable when setting the path. I
tried..

:setvar HPPATH !HPGROUP,pub,pub.sys.arpa.sys,hpbin.sys
:setvar HPPATH HPGROUP,pub,pub.sys.arpa.sys,hpbin.sys

 It keeps resolving the group variable to my present group, which I
sapose is the point of a variable.. I just can't figure out how to get
the ! to stick so the path changes when you change groups..

Then I skipped the path part and moved on and added all the symbolic
links to all the files in hpbin to /bin so now my comands work good in
the shell...

Next I think i'll delete and try to re TAR the JDK.60.tar.Z and see
what happens..

If anyone can advice on how to get the !HPGROUP to stay in the path it
would help out, or tell me why it shouldn't be in there then i'll just
delete it all together..

Thanks again to everyone :)

-Gehan G.

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