Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: the continuing saga... Message-ID: <5805@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 14:04:30 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5805 Posted: Tue Mar 26 14:04:30 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Mar-85 04:26:51 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 43 From: Provan@LLL-MFE.ARPA Date: 26 Mar 1985 0837-EST Return-Path: Received: from CMU-CS-PS1.ARPA by LLL-MFE.ARPA; Tue, 26 Mar 85 05:41 PST Date: 26 Mar 1985 0837-EST From: Dale Moore Subject: Re: the continuing saga... To: PROVAN@LLL-MFE.ARPA Reply-To: MOORE@CMU-CS-PS1.ARPA Check out the V3.0 VAX/VMS System Services Reference Manual Section 5.3.2 Page 5-6. @Begin(Quotation) At login, the system creates default logical name table entries for process permanent files. The equivalence names for these entries (for example, SYS$INPUT and SYS$OUTPUT) are preceded with a four-byte header that contains the following Byte(s) Contents 0 ^X1B (Escape character) 1 ^X00 2-3 VAX-11 RMS Internal File Identifier (IFI) This header is followed by the equivalence name string. @End(Quotation) Please excuse me while I go puke, Dale ------ [Forwarded from Provan@CCC.MFENET on March 26, 1985 at 8:33 PST ] I hope Dale doesn't mind me forwarding this to the net, but I really want to get his puke to the list and add mine. I can't believe they redid all the logical name stuff to get rid of the leading underscore trash, but they kept all this trash in 4.0. Can I actually use that IFI to open the file? I thought I needed a full FID.