[Info-vax] sys admin default directory

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-02-08 23:39, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> 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.

Even simpler than that.

DIR volumename:[000000]*.DIR

and you will see all the subdirectories that are immediately under the 
MFD. Note that 000000.DIR also exists in volumename:[000000]. Kindof 
like the fact that ".." in "/" under Unix points to itself, and not a 
parent dir.

Or

DIR volumename:[000000...]*.DIR

and you'll see all the directories on the volume.


Actually... If we want to be really technical about this, the MFD is 
file id (4,4,0). The name 000000.DIR is just the conventional name that 
exists to refer to the MFD, and to find that, you need a 000000.DIR in 
the (4,4,0) file.


SYS$MANAGER is not a directory, it's a logical name, that translates to 
a directory (or several). Similar to environment variables in Unix...

	Johnny

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