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Re: Finding a users disk name

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From: A virtually vegetal non-entity
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 17:24
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In article <1992Oct7.031040.5662@gw.wmich.edu>, 737ochs@gw.wmich.edu writes...
>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]. 

Do a $TRNLOG on SYS$LOGIN.  If you just want the device, look at
SYS$LOGIN_DEVICE.

Joel M Snyder, 1103 E Spring Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719 
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Subject: Re: Finding a users disk name
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From: jms@carat.arizona.edu (A virtually vegetal non-entity)
Date: 7 Oct 1992 10:24 MST  
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