These are Doug Rupp's Gnu tools for VMS 7.1.

This ftp site has a slow connection. Please restrict downloads to the hours
of 10:00 PM - 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. That way it won't interfere 
too much with my regular job.

These tools  have a Unix flavour, e.g. they generally accept only Unix syntax
file specifications. Most of them will work fine without bash.

Bash requires ALPACRT06_071 or later from ftp.service.digital.com and the
logical name DECC$EXEC_FILEATTR_INHERITANCE must be defined. See the
ALPACRT06_071 readme for further information about this.

Bash expects to be installed in /bin (sys$system) & /gnu/bin,
this is what I recommend:

$create/dir [<dir>.gcclib]
$create/dir [<dir>.gcclib.bin]
$define/job/translation=concealed gnu disk$vmsuser:[<dir>.gcclib.]
$define dcl$path gnu:[bin]
$define vaxc$path gnu:[bin]

$copy *.exe [<dir>.gcclib.bin]   ! *.exe == Gnu tools
$copy bash.exe sys$system:sh.exe ! /bin/sh
$set file/prot=(s:re,o:re,g:re,w:re) sys$system:sh.exe

Bash is very slow on VMS because of all the processes and temporary files
it creates. The temporary files are necessary because pipes don't work on
VMS the same way as they do on Unix so temporary files are used instead.
Because of this I create a ramdisk using DECram and define a logical name
TMPDIR to point to it. This will speed up bash by 10x.

TODO:
Get bash working well enough to configure and build itself using gcc.

For a good Unixy gcc for VMS, I recommend the Gcc that comes with the public
release of GNAT (aka Gnu Ada) for VMS, available on ftp.cs.nyu.edu. You
can install it and just delete the Ada related stuff, if you want. Also comes
with GDB and Gnu make for VMS. Some of these Gnu tools are also included
in that kit (but not bash). GNAT gets installed in the same directory
hierarchy as recommended above.

Also, if there's enough interest, I'll set up a mailing list.

Douglas Rupp
rupp@gnat.com