File specification regularity

[Eirik Fuller]

In article <3981 at enea.se> sommar at enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
)  ...
) >I prefer:
) >/sysroot/utils/anunews/src/news_src/news_add.obj
) ...
) On the other hand, on VMS you can do the following:
) DEFINE/TRANSLATION=CONCEALED NEWS_ROOT SYS$SYSROOT:<UTILS.ANUNEWS> 

ln -s /sysroot/utils/anunews /news_root
gives the name /news_root/src/news_src/news_add.obj 

Doesn't help much if your flavor of Unix has no symlinks though.

Does VMS store this alias in the file system?  Does it survive
reboots?  Never mind, I don't really want to know :-)