[Info-vax] sys admin default directory

[John Reagan]

On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:39:10 PM UTC-5, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Johnny Billquist" <> wrote in message 
> news:n9abr2$cqi$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE...
> 
> > Nitpick: The volumes MFD is at volumename:[000000]. :-)
> 
> ...
> 
> OK so anything such as ...01 or ...02 are the subdirectories. I am seeing 
> these numbers now. I see SET SHOW shows directories. sys$manager came to 
> mind and I could not find that anywhere. I must not be a directory or "link" 
> to a directory, in *nix speak.
> 
> Bill

VMS has "logical names".  More/different than shell variables or softlinks.  When used with the file system, they often stand in for device names.  And they can have multiple translations.  When the file system does a file lookup, it will try each subsequent translation looking for the file.  And if it finds another logical name, it translates that and looks some more.

$ SHOW LOGICAL SYS$MANAGER