[Info-vax] Porting logical name applications to Unix

[John Wallace]

On Sep 28, 2:13 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> 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 ?

Sounds like you need to read Kernighan and Ritchie. Nominally it's a
book on The C Programming Language but it answers basic Unix questions
like this.