From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: Vagaries of VMS Known Files
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8271
Posted: Thu Aug 12 15:07:48 1982
Received: Sun Aug 15 02:33:42 1982

>From lblg!sventek#j@LBL-UNIX Thu Aug 12 15:06:58 1982
If you examine the output of the trnlog_s invocation, you will probably find
that the first four characters are some binary garbage.  This stuff is
prepended to the resultant string of the known files SYS$OUTPUT and
SYS$ERROR.  The system service manual entry for trnlog_s explains what must
be done to get rid of the binary garbage.  Your assign_s system call should
then succeed.  This problem only occurs when you use one of the known
file logical names.

Joe Sventek