Finding a users disk name

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From: 737ochs
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 08:10

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Hello, I'm helping a friend of mine write a program that kinda simulates
a unix-type operating system. What we are having trouble with is the
cd ~user  command. We don't know how to get the person's disk area name
from their username. We'd like to be able to do cd ~user and have the 
program give us back disk$xxx:[user]. Is there an easy way to do this, 
and a way to do it without having operator privileges. Oh, we are using
VMS version 5.5
Please e-mail replies,
Thanks,
Fred Ochs

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From: 737ochs@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
Subject: Finding a users disk name
Message-ID: <1992Oct7.031040.5662@gw.wmich.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:10:40 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University
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