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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <alpine.LRH.2.21.1901210852010.7419 at wobble.vgersoft.com>, Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com> writes:
> 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.

   Prevents wasting disk space with multiple copies of identical files.
   And, the naming convention is understandable.