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From: eirik@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Eirik Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: File specification regularity
Keywords: VMS vs Unix
Message-ID: <3150@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 88 17:53:23 GMT
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In article <3981@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
)  ...
) >I prefer:
) >/sysroot/utils/anunews/src/news_src/news_add.obj
) ...
) On the other hand, on VMS you can do the following:
) DEFINE/TRANSLATION=CONCEALED NEWS_ROOT SYS$SYSROOT:<UTILS.ANUNEWS> 

ln -s /sysroot/utils/anunews /news_root
gives the name /news_root/src/news_src/news_add.obj 

Doesn't help much if your flavor of Unix has no symlinks though.

Does VMS store this alias in the file system?  Does it survive
reboots?  Never mind, I don't really want to know :-)