Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm!unknown
From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DCL query -- f$parse
Message-ID: <106rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 15 Apr 88 17:03:03 GMT
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It just occurred to me  ...  there is a way to make it work, but it is very
clumsy.  That is...you make your logical search path be a concealed device
definition:

$ DEFINE/TRANS=CONCEALED SEARCH$PATH DEV1:[DIR1.],DEV2:[DIR2.],DEV3:[DIR3.]

Then, construct your filename to be searched as:

search$path:[000000]filename.ext

Since it is concealed device translation, f$parse doesn't translate the
logical name, leaving it for f$search to properly expand into the search
list.

                                AMMON::RAY