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)
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