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Article #309Re: Finding a users disk name
From: Ed Wilts
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 19:22
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 19:22
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In article <7OCT199210243904@carat.arizona.edu>, jms@carat.arizona.edu (A virtually vegetal non-entity) writes: > 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$LOGIN_DEVICE. In Unix, cd ~user sets your default directory to that of *another* user. Translating SYS$LOGIN_DEVICE only makes sense if you're looking for your own device. -- Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8 EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA | Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA | (604) 389-3430
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!bcsystems!ewilts From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts) Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals Subject: Re: Finding a users disk name Message-ID: <1992Oct7.122253.1068@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> Date: 7 Oct 92 12:22:53 -0700 References: <1992Oct7.031040.5662@gw.wmich.edu> <7OCT199210243904@carat.arizona.edu> Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA Distribution: world,local Organization: BC Systems Corporation Lines: 17