From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: Looking for files in VAX/VMS
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7948
Posted: Thu Jul  8 07:55:40 1982
Received: Fri Jul  9 01:53:55 1982

>From VLSI@DEC-MARLBORO Thu Jul  8 07:57:09 1982
I use the following series of DCL commands to search for a file:

$ DIRECTORY/OUTPUT=NL: filename
$ IF $STATUS THEN ...

I haven't had time to check out the new lexicals in VMS V3.0, but the above
still works in V3.

					-- Roger Goun
					   DEC Hudson, MA
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