[Info-vax] puzzled by DCL symbol substitution

[Steven Schweda]

On Jan 17, 5:48 am, Gotfryd Smolik news <smo... at stanpol.com.pl> wrote:

>   Then NLA0: can be shortened to NLA and NL:

   Or "NL0":

ALP $ show device nl0

Device                  Device           Error
 Name                   Status           Count
NLA0:                   Online               0

> ...and if only one TTA0: device exists, the TT logical name
> must be removed (with privileges, as it is a /EXEC one)
> to check that the "TT:" shortcut also works.

   Uh, how do you get more than one TTA0: device?  "TT" is
trouble irregardful of how many "TTcu" devices you have.  For
example:

ALP $ show logical tt
   "TT" = "_FTA39:" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)

ALP $ show device tt

Device                  Device           Error
 Name                   Status           Count
FTA39:                  Online               0

But, it's easy to avoid logical name translation:

ALP $ show device _tt

Device                  Device           Error
 Name                   Status           Count
TTA0:                   Online               0
TTB0:                   Online               0

(And you don't need to wreck anything to do it.)