Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!super!pcolsen
From: pcolsen@super.ORG (Peter C Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Logical pathnames in CommonLisp?
Message-ID: <31992@super.ORG>
Date: 24 Aug 90 01:32:33 GMT
References: <12877@june.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@super.ORG
Distribution: na
Organization: Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, Md.
Lines: 14

I'm looking for some pointers on how to customize a Symbolics 8.0
environment for logical pathnames.  I use my Symbolics as an entry
point to a large network with many hosts, each of which has my files
far sown on the directory chain.  I'm tired of typing

   frodo:/usr/home/project/myname/division/fname.type

or some such for each file I access on each host on which I have an
account. I know that there must be a way to define an abbreviation so
that I can get right to 

  symbolic_directory_name>fname.type 

on the hosts of my choice, but I have't yet found the pointer to it.