[Info-vax] "proper" ownership for high-level system files

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <m848qk$v5f$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman

>> The VMS$COMMON.DIR is an alias directory entry for all of the 
>> [SYS*]SYSCOMMON.DIR directory entries present; that's all the same 
>> directory, and the same files.
> 
> Right, but actually it's reversed: all of the [SYS*]SYSCOMMON.DIR are 
> aliases for VMS$COMMON.DIR.

Yeah, I wondered about that.  It was my impression that VMS$COMMOM was 
the primary directory, and others aliases.  Don't know where I got that 
idea, it's been a long time.  I could easily be wrong.