Cc.Kaczmarczik@A20.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (Mic Kaczmarczik) (08/18/86)
I am working on an application (a print symbiont) in VAX Pascal that requires me to access files by file and directory id, instead of the RMS file name. This requirement is due to the fact that print files that have been spooled to an intermediate disk are not entered in a directory! Hence, there's no directory path to the file, and an OPEN on the file will fail. So, the $64,000 question is: is there any way to open a VAX Pascal file variable (i.e. of type TEXT) by file ID instead of file name? I have tried using the USER_ACTION parameter of the OPEN procedure to tinker with the RMS blocks used to $OPEN the file, but all attempts have generated internal bugchecks from the VAX Pascal run-time library. I'd appreciate any pointers or suggestions about how to go about this. If there in fact isn't a way to open a Pascal text file by file ID, does anyone have some examples of using RMS from VAX Pascal that they'd be willing to share? Cheers, Mic Kaczmarczik User Services Digital Support Group U.T. at Austin Computation Center ARPA: cc.kaczmarczik@a20.cc.utexas.edu UUCP: ...!ihnp4!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!mic -------