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Subject: Re: VMS: Does a 'make' equivalent exist??
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 18:26:50 EDT
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From: Gail Rubin <grubin@bbn-spca>

There is a DEC product called DEC MMS which is a VMS version of make.
Look into that.

To refer to the current directory, you can use []. The parent is [-].
The equivalent of ../../over/there is [-.-.over.there] in VMS.
The very top directory is called [000000] (6 zeroes) though you usually
don't need to reference it explicitly. From a top level directory
DUA0:[SOMEUSER], [-] will reference [000000]. You never have to
reference [SOMEUSER] as [000000.SOMEUSER] although they are equivalent.

Relative path names in VMS are also possible. A unix file spec of
child/grandchild/filename would be [.child.grandchild]filename

Hope this helps!

-- Gail Rubin
(grubin@bbn-spca or @bbn-unix)