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[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-23 13:18:41 +0000, hb said:

> On 06/23/2016 02:35 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> Moving mount points around is also easy.  You can even do that on 
>> OpenVMS now, too.
> 
> I know, there is an API, implemented in the base image. I don't know 
> whether and where it is documented. And there is a tool, "mnt", which 
> is provided with GNV (GNU's Not VMS). As this is "open source", it 
> exhibits the API. Is there a "native" VMS tool, nowadays? Or are you 
> talking about something totally diffferent?

Here's the OpenVMS mount point documentation, in the main manuals:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/5763/5763pro_021.html
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/5763/5763pro_022.html#mount_point

How these didn't get to be DCL commands and/or system services, I'm 
sure there's a backstory.    I do not know if VSI might decide to alter 
the design used here, but then I've publicly pondered (read: ranted) 
about similar implementations elsewhere in OpenVMS once or twice 
before, and the effects that these sorts of designs have on future 
application designs and application compatibility.  Once shipped, these 
designs are much harder to change, and the dependencies inherently tend 
to multiply.

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