Summary: Hello, I want to read a file with following DCL-Code: OPEN/READ FILE <whatever> How can i check if the file is open(lock) by an another user? Befor...
Summary: $ open file YOURFILE.DAT $10: $ read/end_of-file=20 file record $ if record .eqs. "" then goto 10 $ write sys$output record $ goto 10 $20: $ close fil...
Summary: In Win or Linux an opened file could be copied to another location. Now I want to do the same in Open VMS and I haven't any ideea. I can't get lost th...
Summary: Hi guys, i am having problem with getting the error messages, may i know what is the problem here? DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of CAL002-DEBUGGING...
Summary: Been away awhile... Short answer: Yes. Open files; start transaction ($START_TRANS(W)); do file activities; commit/abort transaction ($END_TRANS(W)/$...
Summary: I replied to a year old post but maybe noone saw it since it didn't go to the top of the list, so i'm reposting it here. I need to open a bck file. Is...
Summary: Open VMS is an operating system that started out on Digital Equipment Corporations first produced systems such as the PDP. The migration through the y...
Summary: I present the new version 2.2-6 of my freeware open source program VTfm which is a Norton Commander-style file manager for OpenVMS and VT-compatible t...
Summary: I want to create a command file that can open a text file, find a specific word, edit it and save the new text file using lexical functions - is there...
Summary: Hi, If a file already exsist but needs to be opened you should use OPEN/APPEND. To write records to the file you should use the WRITE command Here's a...
Summary: If all you want is the file version number of the executable, you can use the $GETJPI/$GETJPIW or LIB$GETJPI services to obtain the image file name (J...
Summary: Hi! I need to know if it is possible to open Backup files created in OpenVMS under windows? The file extentions are bck. I'm just a shadow of my forme...
Summary: I have strings of information like: $string1="hello" $string2="hi" I would like to write them into a text file. How can I do this? I tryed the next op...
Summary: What exactly are you trying to establish? If the file contains 1 record, do this: $ OPEN/READ/ERROR=OPENERR IN <your file> $ READ/ERROR=READERR IN ...
Summary: Hi All, In unix there is a system call called as mknod.which actualy creates a FIFO special file.Is ther any similar system call that can be used...
Summary: I received SAS datasets from MVS-Unix platform and I have Open-VMS SAS platform. Question: What are the Steps I need to take, in order to read the dat...
Summary: There's a lot more on error handling. above possibilities are a brute_exit I would not suggest - nor allow them on my system! It won't tell me ANYTHIN...
Summary: Quick and Dirty but functional......... It doesn't check if the file exist or not $ SET NOON $ OPEN/READ FILE EMPTY_FILE.TXT $ READ/END_OF_FILE=EOF FI...
Summary: Welcome to OpenVMS. The method you need for this search depends on whether you want to do this from in a command, a command file (or script), or a pr...
Summary: Hi, I have an old VAX VMS application (For my question I hope it is similar to Open VMS) that creates HP-PCL files. I downloaded these files to the PC...
Summary: Hi all all, I'm new to the board and I have a quick question: how can I check If a file exists using a conditional (IF..) I've seen that I could use ...
Summary: If the key(s) are text, then You can use DCL: open/read/write logname filespec read/key=mumble/delete logname close logname See HELp READ for det...
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