From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Help?? Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8269 Posted: Thu Aug 12 11:48:16 1982 Received: Sun Aug 15 03:46:46 1982 >From CLUSER.JFW@MIT-XX Thu Aug 12 11:47:14 1982 I have a (probably stupid) VMS question, which I cannot seem to find the answer to in the manuals. I have a MACRO program which simply wants to write to the user's terminal. In a completely cookbook manner, I have an ASCID string whose contents are SYS$OUTPUT, I call $TRNLOG_S to get the True Name of the terminal into a buffer, and then I call $ASSGN_S to assign a channel. $ASSGN_S returns the error %SYSTEM-F-IVDEVNAM, invalid device name. Using the library procedure LIB$PUT_OUTPUT, it tells me that the device name is "_OPA0:", which is the correct thing (This is done from the console of a single user machine). The code, as I said, is stolen character-for-characcter from two different VMS Manual examples (such as they are). What is going on? Thanks for your patience and assistance. -John Woods, CLUSER.JFW @ MIT-XX -------