[Info-vax] Porting logical name applications to Unix

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Sep 27 17:23:50 EDT 2009


Steven Schweda wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> But you would only use a few of them and instead put the
>> majority of the paths in a text config file.
> 
>    The same as you would use a logical name to point to a
> config file on VMS instead of using dozens of logical names.
> A config file can be used on any OS.

It can.

But many VMS apps uses lots of logicals.

That is not the case for Unix apps. Ot at least I have
never seen a Unix app using dozens of environment variables.

Arne



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