In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:36:49 -0500, Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
lembark> This matters on VMS becuase the volume portion can be all lembark> sorts of things, including search lists, all of which are lembark> opaque to the caller. This allows me to lembark> lembark> set def USER$SANDBOX: lembark> lembark> and later lembark> lembark> set def [FOOBAR] lembark> lembark> and end up in USER:[PROJECTS.SANDBOX.INWORK.FOOBAR] becuase lembark> VMS checked in the eight dir's defined as user$sandbox: and lembark> the first one with a 'FOOBAR' subdir became my new default. Not entirely true. You will end up in USER$SANDBOX:[FOOBAR]. However, whenever you do a file operation where the current default is used, it will be translated into whatever works in the end, like USER:[PROJECTS.SANDBOX.INWORK.FOOBAR]. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis
