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 of process permanent files Message-ID: <5803@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 13:38:08 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5803 Posted: Tue Mar 26 13:38:08 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Mar-85 04:25:57 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 16 From: Mark Johnson Well, the translation of process permanent files ALWAYS have had some nonsense tacked onto the start of the equivalence string. In my VMS System Services Manual (for V4, page 6-9;for V3.x, page 5-7) it talks about the header being , , followed by a word holding the RMS Internal File Identifier. Presumably, you could use the IFI yourself instead of opening the file for performance. The text in both books follows with something like "If any of your program applications must translate system-assigned logical names, the program must be prepared to check for the existence of this header and then to use only the desired part of the equivalence string". There is also an example in MACRO. Bleah. I hope this helps. --Mark