[Info-vax] sys admin default directory

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 15:14:49 UTC, Steven Schweda  wrote:
> > [...] Similar to environment variables in Unix... 
> 
>    With the (critical) difference being that on VMS, the file
> system can automatically evaluate a logical name, where with
> a UNIX-like OS/shell the user needs to do that (getenv(),
> "${}") explicitly.
> 
>    Logical names are one of VMS's nicest features.  Sadly,
> they're not widely available elsewhere.

If I remember rightly, something partly equivalent to
logical names was a key part of Tru64's implementation of
VMScluster-style functionality, in particular the
Clusterwide File System. Context Dependent Symbolic Links?
Anyway, as you say, not widely available elsewhere.