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Subject: why find instruction is not working

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Name: kishorepathur
Date: January 7, 2008 at 00:36:52 Pacific
Subject: why find instruction is not working
OS: open vms
CPU/Ram: 2gb
Model/Manufacturer: windows xp

Comment:

Hi
Could any one please tell me why the instruction find is working in the DCL in some open vms version's and not in others. This find actually shows the subdirectories and files inside a file given
syntax is
find <directory name>

kishore

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Response Number 1

Name: HakZan
Date: January 7, 2008 at 02:42:57 Pacific
Subject: why find instruction is not working

Reply: (edit)

It could be one of two things.....
(1) FIND can be a symbol.
$ SHOW SYMBOL FIND
(2) The logical DCL$PATH can be in use.
$ SHOW LOGICAl DCL$PATH
If the logical is used, try
$ DIR DCL$PATH:FIND

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Response Number 2

Name: Bob Gezelter
Date: January 8, 2008 at 06:25:00 Pacific
Subject: why find instruction is not working

Reply: (edit)

kishorepathur,
FIND is not a standard OpenVMS command, for any version of OpenVMS since the initial release of VAX/VMS.
I expect that the difference that you are seeing is one system to another (or one user to another), not different versions of OpenVMS.
As suggested by the previous poster, I would track down exactly what is happening on a system where your individual login context appears to have a definition for FIND.
- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

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Response Number 3

Name: HakZan
Date: January 8, 2008 at 07:31:32 Pacific
Subject: why find instruction is not working

Reply: (edit)

Kishore mailed me and they use DCL$PATH.

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