Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!gatech!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!jeh
From: jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS logicals help -> dir and -> sub-dir
Message-ID: <2514@crash.cts.com>
Date: 9 Feb 88 19:52:12 GMT
References: <722@zycad.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan)
Organization: CMKRNL Press, San Diego, CA
Lines: 17
Keywords: vms4.5, logicals
Summary: Use [000000] for the root

In article <722@zycad.UUCP> kjb@zycad.UUCP (Kevin Buchs) writes:
>I would like to define a logical such that it could be used to refer to a
>specific directory and could be used to refer to sub-directories of that
>directory ( by appending on the [sub-dir] ).  We are at VMS 4.5.
>
>...  If I define the logical as
>node::disk:[directory.] (notice the trailing dot) then this logical does
>allow [sub-directory] to be appended.  It however cannot be used without
>appending a subdirectory, and there is no way to append a null subdirectory.

Well, actually, there is, though it's not obvious how.  You just use [000000]
after the logical that specifies the root.  For example, try 

	$ DIRE SYS$SYSROOT:[000000]

You'll get a directory of [SYS0], or [SYS1], or whatever SYS$SYSROOT points
to on your node.