[Info-vax] Use of logical names other than I/O redirection

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <60a6807f-fbb7-400a-9f6a-fe452c3c5fc8n at googlegroups.com>,
"alanfe... at gmail.com" <alanfeldman48 at gmail.com> writes: 

> Greetings. 
> 
> I recall Hoff once lamenting about logical names. He said they are mostly good for I/O redirection. And, IIRC, not liking using them to store application data.
> 
> I was wondering how people here (esp. Hoff!) feel about their use in batch queues and mail.
> 
> Just askin'. 

I use logical names for many things, also I/O redirection, but that is 
relatively minor.  They really come into their own with cluster-wide 
logical names.  In particular, one can have, say, a logical name table 
with access for a group but, due to the parent table, available 
cluster-wide.