On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:01:24 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >It's a full filesystem so /etc wouldn't be appropriate and that would add an >extra 'qualifier' on the path for the users. Instead of entering >/dsfs/txt/hlq/file it would have to be /etc/dsfs/txt/hlq/file. > I consider that the least of hardships. And users will quickly circumvent it with symlinks, environment variables, and scripts.
Better, Allocation should support relative pathnames. I had a CMS-centric co-worker who lauded CMS for it's flat filesystem: no qualifiers. I think he got better with OS/2 and CMS got worse with the advent of SFS adding qualifiers. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
