[Info-vax] Base/root directory for users on single disk VAX

[Steve Thompson]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2019, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> And y'all will probably find some broken path-parsing DCL code with 
> concealed, rooted logical names. For best problem-finding effect here, 
> also use the <.> syntax in place of [.] syntax. OpenVMS itself got that 
> filename parsing wrong within the PCSI utility, among various other 
> tools. This as the OpenVMS path-parsing APIs are most charitably 
> referred to as "inadequate".

And what bright spark was it that thought [SYSx.SYS$STARTUP] was a good 
idea? Fugly.

Steve