Running Processes

If a command is not prefixed by @, $, . or ! and it is not an assignment then it is assumed to be either a loaded command or an external process. QCL will search for a match in the loaded package subroutine, if there is one and if this fails it will look for a binary file on the default directory having the same name as the command. For example

qcl>myprog

will execute the binary myprog.

If QCL fails to find the process on the default directory it will try to find a match on $XMAIN. Only if this also fails will it give up and issue an error message.