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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wmichgw!737ochs
- From: 737ochs@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Finding a users disk name
- Message-ID: <1992Oct7.031040.5662@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 7 Oct 92 03:10:40 EST
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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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
- Please e-mail replies,
- Thanks,
- Fred Ochs
-