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Subject: Quick question--how to set file protection from program in VMS
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Date: Sun, 8-Jun-86 17:44:39 EDT
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I have a quick question which I hope someone "out there" can either tell
me how to do under VMS 4.2 or can tell me exactly what manual to look in.
That is, I would like to set the protection of a file from a program in
VMS, specifically a Fortran program which creates the file.  (This is
easy enough in C since the protection is specified when the file is
created, but Fortran doesn't make it easy.)  Now the help library on
RTL and SYSTEM gives information which is helpful in finding out the
protection on a file that is already there, but I can't seem to find
anything which tells me how to do the opposite, that is, to set the
protection on an existing file.  (I am just interested in read/write/execute/
delete protections, not ACLs or anything fancy.)  Thank you very much...

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