[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

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In article <ker9jj$nbi$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>On 2013-02-05 02:17:28 +0000, AEF said:
>
>> On Feb 3, 3:31 pm, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Environment variables aren't a direct match to logical names.
>>> Similarities, yes, but there also are substantive differences, too.
>> 
>> Close enough for this. I just need to be able to use the variable as
>> part of a path.
>> 
>> Seems to me that at the most basic level, logical names are
>> environment variables, in a sense anyway. Now, they have a much richer
>> structure, with the different tables of varying scope, the various
>> access modes, search lists, and what not. Their chief use is in
>> device- and file-specs, of course. But they're also used in MAIL, for
>> queues, for storing data, and more. So it's just a matter of what's
>> translating them in what context. There's the automatic translation
>> when part of a generalized file-spec, and automatic translation in
>> certain other contexts. That's all different from environment
>> variables in Unix. But I don't need all that for this. I just need the
>> ability to have something I can use in a path.
>
>So you are seeking a key-value data store, something that logical names 
>classically excel at stinking at.
>
>Logical names got us the morass that is the DEC C feature logical 
>names, after all.

Logical names did not create the morass.  


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