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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-01-21 13:53:25 +0000, Steve Thompson said:

> 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.

And an out-of-band and volatile key-value store and lacking sequential 
access and often used for configuration data... isn't?


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