[Info-vax] Porting logical name applications to Unix

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> 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 ?

Try stdin and stdout.  I think that they are predefined.  It's been 
quite a while since I did any serious work with any Unix so take this 
with a tiny grain of salt.