Hi Can we use / as command script parameter? Purpose is I want to create an environment where some of the Unix command (cd, ls,mkdir etc.) should work in VMS. E.g. @CD /usr/bin As per my analysis DCL will throw an error if we use / as parameter. @CD "/" will work, but I can not ask the user to enter a command @CD "/usr/bin" Thanks Sethu Thanks Sethu

Hello Sethu, I don't know of a way to use / as a command parameter when you invoke a DCL script. But I have heard that there are other ways to emulate UNIX. HP hosts a set of freeware programs called GNV ("GNU's not VMS") that provides a BASH command shell and apparently some other utilities. See http://h71000.www7.hp.com/OpenSourc... By the way, if you stay with DCL, you can make the commands a little more UNIX-like by defining a symbol to invoke the command file, for instance: $ CD :== @sys$login:cd.com This allows the user to omit the "@" and makes the command file available whatever the user's current default directory. You can redefine DCL commands in a similar way: ls :== directory Yours, Kelly