[Info-vax] Porting logical name applications to Unix

[P. Sture]

In article <00389e02$0$26786$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot 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 ?

Please see my answer to Paul's post.

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Paul Sture