[Info-vax] RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 11:50:15 AM UTC+12, David Froble wrote:
> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> Then there’s the sheer complexity of a VMS filespec. Does the idea of
>> exposing disk device names seem so wise nowadays? On POSIX, you have a
>> pathspec with components separated by simple slashes, and disk device names
>> are completely hidden.
> 
> Ah, .... actually, I like to be able to manage where I'm going to locate
> things. 

Which is an entirely separate issue from how applications access those things.