[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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