Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU!carl From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: DCL programming and BACKUP journaling question Message-ID: <870723140822.052@CitHex.Caltech.Edu> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 17:17:36 EDT Article-I.D.: CitHex.870723140822.052 Posted: Thu Jul 23 17:17:36 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 10:50:20 EDT References: <870723-090735-1955@Xerox> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 25 > 1. DCL write/update does not work for me. > For a test case I created a file called j.1 which has two records: > 22-JUL-1987 > 23-JUL-1987 > I then open the file with: > $ open/share io j.1 > Read the records: > $ read io rec1 > $ read io rec2 > Update rec2 with rec1: > $ write/update io rec1 > At this point I got the error message: > %RMS-F-FAC, record operation not permitted by specified file access > (FAC). > The file is owned by me and the protection code is O:RWED. It is a > sequential file. This code is tested under VMS 4.5. You'd get the same message any time you try to write to the file, since you've opened it readonly. The /share says you'll let other people open the file while you're reading it; it doesn't say you can write it. You need to use the command: $ OPEN/READ/WRITE io j.1