[Info-vax] OpenVMS Aliasing

[JF Mezei]

for a rooted logical

such as mylogical equalted to dua0:[mydir.]

you can do

DIR mylogical:[000000] --> dua0:[mydir]
DIR mylogical:[source] --> dua0:[mydir.source]
DIR mylogical:[source.old] --> dua0:[mydir.source.old]


routed logicals are defined with some options:


define mylogical dua0:[mydir.] /translation=(terminal,concealed)

Logical names are defined in a logical name table.


by default it goes into your process,s own table.

But there is also a /JOB table for all subprocesses of the main one.

/GROUP which is a group logical table for all users in the same UIC group.

/SYSTEM for a logical that is available to all users on the system.

There are other logival name tables, some created specifically for some
software (such as DECwindows). There are also obscure ones (such as one
used for the licence management).

And finally, there is also a clusterwide logical name table. there is no
/CLUSTER qualifier, but you do this with /TABLE=LNM$SYSCLUSTER  and your
declaration gets propagated to all systems in the cluster at the
"system" level (aka: available to all users).