[Info-vax] Porting logical name applications to Unix

[Bob Koehler]

In article <e25ad0d0-48bb-4a93-a651-9ba6b1791b98 at g19g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> 
> A limited implementation of this concept was introduced as part of the
> TruCluster support in Tru64 UNIX V5.0; in a link to
> ../clusters/members/{memb}/blah or similar, the Virtual File System
> layer automagically substitutes {memb} with something that uniquely
> identifies the path appropriate for the cluster member doing the
> lookup, if you see what I mean.

   It's fairly easy to implement a string lookup, I've done so in a
   few non-VMS applications, emulating logical names.  Just make sure
   you don't automatically go chasing some inifinite loop.

   It's so much better to have real logical names.