From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Re: Help?? Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8272 Posted: Thu Aug 12 21:12:29 1982 Received: Sun Aug 15 03:28:41 1982 >From CLUSER.JFW@MIT-XX Thu Aug 12 21:10:18 1982 Thanks to all who have answered my plea, but the common suggestion (that process permanent files have magic cookies in front of them) isn't the problem. (Review: I get %SYSTEM_F_IVDEVNAM for daring to ASSIGN SYS$OUTPUT after $TRNLOG_S'ing it) I do, in fact, remove the escape sequence; the code to do this is in both of the VMS Manual examples which I cannabalized. To (perhaps) clarify the problem more, two other manifestations: 1) If I $ASSIGN_S right from .ASCID /SYS$OUTPUT/ (since $ASSIGN_S is capable of dealing with single level logical names), I still get the problem (and one would hope that the writer of $ASSIGN knew about the magic cookie). 2) When I removed the TRNLOG, and changed the program to $ASSIGN_S from .ASCID /_OPA0:/ (which is the console terminal I am working from, and is the string yielded by TRNLOG), I *still* get the error. Does this further information suggest some OTHER obvious tripping point for the initiate? Thanks, John Woods (CLUSER.JFW @ MIT-XX) -------