[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[Michael Moroney]

moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:

>What the familiar $ DELETE command really does is to open the file, set 
>the deleted file bit and close it. ...

I should point out that different things happen if /ERASE is specified, or
if the file or drive is set to /erase_on_delete.  I don't know the details
but $ DELETE does need exclusive access to the file while it or the file
system zeroes the blocks.