[Info-vax] Porting logical name applications to Unix

[JF Mezei]

Paul Raulerson wrote:
> The
> idea of course is to use generic file names in the programs, and  
> attach them at runtime.

Ok, what is the best way to achieve this ? VMS has logical names, and
MVS has DD statements in JCL and their equivalent in TSO.  With Unix, do
you open "input.dat" and then create a link in the directory called
"input.dat" which points to the actual file ?