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Re: VMS vs "Unix"

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From: When I boot to device appear to ...
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:32
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In article <1992Dec23.195640.17777@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes...
>  joesvax::a$physical_disk$name_here_like_dra0:[dir.dir.dir]filename
> 
>may work from anywhere on the net, but you need to know the node name,
>physical device name, and lots of syntax with variable numbers of
>colons, and [names] as well.

It's very easy for the system manager can set up logical names to make
this transparent to users. 



Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer 
Homewood Computing Facilities, Johns Hopkins University, Balto. Md. 21218 
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Subject: Re: VMS vs "Unix"
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