--- Gehan Gehale <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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...

can you do a 'help sh' or even print the udc file?

>  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'

well...yes.  hppath is a visible/useable variable within the shell.
however, most (all?) of the posix programs are unaware of it.  when
you're in the shell, it's going to use the variable PATH to search for
the command that's just been typed in.  it is PATH that we suspect has
been modified to include '.'

> 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..

under most circumstances, you want hpgroup to be part of your path.
what you want is to 'escape' the exclaimation point...with another !

here's how i set hppath on one of my boxes:

setvar hppath &
"!!hpgroup,pub,pub.sys,cmd.sys,arpa.sys,hpbin.sys,utl.sys"

for the curious....for certain users the path is modified even more
with:

# state syscmd twice for hfs & mpe files...
  setvar hppath "/SYS/SYSCMD/,syscmd.sys,"+hppath

and *that* is truely kewl because you can name files like you may have
only dreamed of.  restart.apache really does work from the colon
prompt...no smoke...no magic...because it lives under /SYS/SYSCMD/

:-)          - d

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Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
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Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
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