[Info-vax] When RENAME doesn't RENAME

[Bob Koehler]

In article <55af9345-e22d-4a65-8cb9-72d1be04c146 at googlegroups.com>, "Doc Trins O'Grace" <doctrinsograce at gmail.com> writes:
> I am running OpenVMS 8.4 on Itanium.
> 
> Start by creating a lowercase filename on an ODS5 disk.
> 
> With /CASE_LOOKUP=BLIND, interactively renaming the file to uppercase works as one would expect. However, in a batch job (also with /CASE_LOOKUP=BLIND) the rename does not work.
> 
> I take it that RENAME "knows" the process mode. But why would it care?


   Are you sure that the latter case is not trying to rename without
   extended parsing, or trying to rename a file with multiple versions?