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From: DEFFER@CGEUGE51.BITNET (Eric Defferard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: "$" in Logicals
Message-ID: <8807251054.AA14360@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 88 10:32:00 GMT
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>I have heard here, and elsewhere, that dollar signs ($) are "reserved"
>by digital for their own use in logicals.  Nevertheless our system
>managers have named our disks "PRODUCT$DISK" and such.  Could somebody
>clarify exactly WHERE DEC states this policy (e.g. in 4.6 release notes
>page blah-blah paragraph 87...) so I can go look it up.  Also, do device
>names qualify as logicals, and/or just what does the restriction cover?

Take a look at some VMS 3.x release notes.

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