[Info-vax] sys admin default directory

[Bob Koehler]

In article <c296e6c8-30bf-4985-a656-9d83dc63e087 at googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>> [...] 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.

   And that logical names exist in process, job, group, system, or
   cluster-wide context.

   UNIX shell symbols are like DCL symbols:  visible only to the current
   process, but by default used to initialize the symbols for a
   subprocess.

   Sigh.  1970's software technology that has been set asiide in favor
   of 1960's software technology.