When
you use BPAM to access a UNIX directory, it appears to the program
as a PDS or PDSE directory. A UNIX directory is divided into sequentially
organized files (members), each described by the directory entry.
You can use the BLDL and FIND macros to search a UNIX directory. You
can code the path name with or without a trailing slash.
The UNIX files have the following characteristics:
- BPAM treats UNIX files as members.
- UNIX files can be regular files, special character files, hard
or soft link (symbolic) files, or named pipes.
- Each UNIX file has a unique name of 1-to-8 characters.
- File names are case-sensitive.
- You can use BSAM or QSAM to read individual UNIX files in a directory.
- You can add, rename, or delete UNIX members in a directory, but
not through BPAM.