[Info-vax] sys admin default directory

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-02-08 15:53, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <n95prc$bs7$1 at dont-email.me>, "Bill Cunningham" <nospam at nspam.invalid> writes:
>>      §5.5.2 mentions "-" and says subdirectory. I want sys admin MFD.
>
>     There isn't any.  The SYSTEM account's equivalent to the MFD is the
>     path defined by SYS$SYSROOT:[000000], which is a simulated MFD, and
>     is a list.  The volume's MFD is at SYS$SYSDEVICE:[0000000].

Nitpick: The volumes MFD is at volumename:[000000]. :-)

But I'm sure you actually knew that. And Bill seems to not really 
understand what the MFD is. But maybe he do by now... In Unix speak, 
it's the root directory. As in the top level. "/" in Unix. In VMS, you 
have one per device.

	Johnny

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