[Info-vax] : Re: Default protection question

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ib99ob$flh$1 at posting2.glorb.com>, Art Wiens <awiens at canwest.com> writes:
> 
> $ dir/full dsa0:[000,000]000000.dir

   [0,0] is RSX shorthand for [000000].  In earlier versions of VMS,
   [SYSLOST] was called [001006], and you could call it [1,6].  IRRC
   has to be in the form of two octal numebs up to 3 digits each.

   But in reality the FID and DID are the same, as dumping the header
   shows, and the DID defines the parent:

$ dump/header/block=(start=0,end=0) [0,0]000000.dir
Dump of file RDKUSER1:[000,000]000000.DIR;1 on  8-NOV-2010 13:15:38.92
File ID (4,4,0)   End of file block 1 / Allocated 3

                             File Header

Header area
[...]
    File identification:                  (4,4,0)
[...]
    Back link file identification:        (4,4,0)
[...]