[Info-vax] Search for folders

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2024-01-27 kl. 19:02, skrev Chris Townley:
> On 27/01/2024 17:13, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 1/27/2024 8:52 AM, bill wrote:
>>> On 1/27/2024 12:32 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> On 1/26/2024 3:32 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>>>> Unix has some great tools for searching for folders and files. Are
>>>>> there similar ones in VMS like `grep` or `find`?
>>>>>
>>>>> THe folder structure in OpenVMS is wierd... what's the root folder
>>>>> equivalent is it [000000] or is it cleverer than that?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, the Unix directory structure is weird, the VMS directory structure is
>>>> reasonable.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What is weird about the Unix directory structure?  It is a simple tree.
>>>
>>> In what way is it different from the VMS structure other than not having
>>> lots of "roots"?
>>>
>>> bill
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Because I'm familiar with the VMS structure ???
>>
> The most weird setup I ever used was OS/400 - later i5
> 
> It had many different file systems - an IBM one with  libraries and disk 
> pools, with db2 as the filesystem, a root (Unix like) filesystem and a few 
> more I never used.
> 
> What really upset me was some early *nixs that hid the drive devices, but 
> wouldn't let you rename (mv) files from one device to another. Useful 
> unless you knew what was on which drive!
> 

No different from VMS. You can only RENAME within the same physical storage 
volume/disk. Between different volumes/disks, you need to COPY.