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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

You can retrieve this information from SYSUAF with $GETUAI, if you have
privilige to (SYSPRV needed to do it for any user).

> Please e-mail replies,

And where do you think we should send this e-mail, when you do not supply
an e-mail address ?

PS: I am not sure this is the rigth forum for that question (no MACRO or
    internals stuff involved), but maybe I am just a little tired rigth now.

                                                          Arne

Arne Vajhxj                             local DECNET:  KO::ARNE
Computer Department                     PSI:           PSI%23831001304030::ARNE
Business School of Southern Denmark     Internet:      ARNE@KO.HHS.DK