[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

[Bob Koehler]

In article <n7stt1$hjs$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> On 2016-01-21 23:43, hb wrote:
>> On 01/21/2016 10:32 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> Well, hardlinks exists even in ODS-1...
>>
>> Alias, hardlink? There are only aliases in ODS-2.
> 
> What do you mean by that?
> 
> Hardlinks are hardlinks. They are not so difficult to understand. And 
> they exist under ODS-1. In RSX you even have the ability to create them 
> with PIP. Supported since the 70s.
> 
> The same FID, referred to by another name, possibly in another directory.

   For at least ODS-2 and -5, the second name entered by PIP, 
   or by "set file/enter", is an alias, not a hardlink.  VMS aliases do
   not have the same behaviour as hardlinks.   VMS hardlinks behave
   link UNIX hardlinks, aliases do not.