The lack of dotfiles in VMS

rain$ ssh jack.vistech.net

     Welcome to Jack.vistech.net [Itanium RX2600 Under OpenVMS V8.4]
(huge motd snipped)

$ dir

Directory LDA1:[USERS.GRWTY]

.VIMRC;4            DECW$CALENDAR_FILE.DWC;1                DECW$MAIL.DAT;5
DECW$TERMINAL_DEFAULT.DAT;1             DECW$XAUTHORITY.DECW$XAUTH;1
DROW_NOTES_202574AA_UPDATE.TMP;1        ERRNO.C;2           ERRNO.EXE;1
ERRNO.OBJ;2         LOGIN.COM;1         MAIL.DIR;1          NOTES$NOTEBOOK.NOTE;1
PLAN.TXT;14         PROFILE.INI;13      SSH2.DIR;1          TCPIP$SSH_SFTP-SERVER2.LOG;1
UNAME.C;8           UNAME.EXE;3         UNAME.OBJ;6         WEB.DIR;1

Total of 20 files.
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